In this episode, Maggie has passed her black belt testing! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

In Adventures in Knitting, Maggie’s been pretty busy with said testing, but that didn’t stop her from starting a shawl designed especially for her, which will be a gift for someone, as well as working on a pair of Sacre du Printemps socks and more squares for the Vivid blanket. Karen is working on the same two things she was working on last time: her Urdr shawl and her candleflame stitch pattern socks, but she’s got plans for a Lilli Pilli shawl when she gets a little closer to getting the shawl or the socks done. And of course there’s always the Rhinebeck sweater to consider…

In Geek Squee, Karen has her reviews of Jurassic World (meh), Inside Out (SO GOOD) and the book “The Martian” (OMG SO GOOOOD). Also, the cover model for the First Fall Knitty issue was Neil freaking Gaiman (modelling a pattern from the upcoming Geek Knits book), Pluto is still a dwarf planet no matter how sorry you feel for it and a girl challenges her local library’s robotics program for boys and succeeds!

In Cravings, Covets and Crushes, we have the perfect drinking glasses for stargazing nights, we saw a SUPER CUTE Chibi Baby Groot toy, a gorgeous shawl called “Happy Street” which is perfect for stashbusting some of those sock yarns you know you have, and there are more female scientist Lego sets to vote on!

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SPOILER ALERT! Spoilers for Avengers: Age of Ultron from 23:20 to 35:20

SPOILER ALERT! Spoilers for Agents of SHIELD’s Season 2 finale from 37:30 to 47:35

This time on Knit 1 Geek 2, we’re still not okay, for so, so many reasons.

In Adventures in Knitting, Karen has finished stuff! She’s finished her Leventry shawl for the Handknit Yarn Studio Summer Shawl Knitalong, and she finished and blocked it on time! Well, pinned it out on time. Dried in time, on the other hand… She’s also finished her Monkey Socks out of Rhinebeck yarn. Of course that means she picked up the Urdr shawl again, as well as cast on a pair of socks she’s cobbled together from a stitch dictionary with some of her many skeins of Koigu. She’s also done a fair bit of spinning! Oh, and there was also the Frolic, which was great and it was wonderful to meet so many listeners, though sad that Miz Maggie couldn’t make it.

Meanwhile, Maggie has been working on the Vivid blanket using her sock yarn ends, though that has been put to the side a little as she’s working with a certain listener to design a shawl for her mother’s birthday, which means she’s had to clear the decks and not cast on stuff that she can’t drop at a moment’s notice. So naturally, she’s started the Sacre du Printemps socks. She’s also done some spinning, some of which is turning into the Herringbone Cowl. She’s also preparing to go test for her Black (widow) belt in July!

In Geek Squee, you knew we were going to talk about Avengers, right? So yeah, there’s a lot of that. There’s also freaking out about the Agents of SHIELD finale, as well as the renewal of both Agents of SHIELD and Agent Carter for another season. However, not everyone fared as well, as Constantine wasn’t picked up for another season, though maybe Netflix will step up and fund another season? We’re getting a Supergirl series, though, and Karen’s pretty interested after seeing the trailer, and Maggie definitely is after seeing the leaked pilot, as she is for the new show Lucifer. Also, apparently someone at ABC was listening, because OMG WE’RE GETTING A NEW MUPPET SHOW. Which was nice timing as recently scientists discovered a frog in Costa Rica that looks like Kermit! Karen’s been watching a few things too, as she’s finished watching Daredevil and went to see Mad Max: Fury Road, both of which she loved, though both could be a bit violent and gory at times and she’s still trying to figure out what the hell just just watched with Mad Max. And finally to counter some of the sexist crap we’ve seen in the last few weeks, we found an article about a super badass former Air Transport Auxiliary pilot who flew Spitfires in World War II and got the chance to go up in one again a few weeks ago at the age of 92.

In Cravings, Covets and Crushes, Karen got a very special hat that might look familiar if you’ve seen the promo photos for Agent Carter. Meanwhile Maggie is drooling over the Celtic Myths shawl while Karen is lusting after some seriously gorgeous spinning fibre from Nunoco over on Etsy and nerding out over the book Sock Architecture by Lara Neel.

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As it’s been a while there’s a lot to catch up on. Maggie’s been sending and receiving packages in the Odd Duck Swaps group’s Dresden Files Swap, has been working on the Vivid Blanket and has been designing some Dresden-inspired socks. Karen has started and finished the Estuary Shawl, started the Urdr shawl, finished the Smocks of Love socks and started some Monkey socks. Oh, and she’s doing the Leventry shawl for an LYS knitalong, and retroactively justifying the yarn purchase. Oh, and she finally actually put buttons on her Saddleback Cardigan and wove in the ends. Also, WOO KNITTERS FROLIC! See the end of this post/the Ravelry group for meetup plans.

In Geek Squee, Karen has been continually losing her mind over the casting for the live-action Beauty and the Beast that Disney is producing (and yes, we know there is an answer to the question we still had about casting, but technology was not cooperating to record an addendum :D), Avengers: Age of Ultron is almost here and some brave souls are watching ALL 11 MARVEL MOVIES in a marathon, the Daredevil TV show came out on Netflix and as of recording Karen hadn’t seen it (she’s seen the first two episodes now!), and the Deadpool movie will be Rated R as it should be. Also, if there wasn’t enough media coming back from Karen’s teenage years, OMG THE X-FILES IS COMING BACK WITH ALL THE KEY PLAYERS OMG. We’ve also found an interesting blog called Push Comics Forward and a really cool article about Bolivian women who have moved from doing traditional knitting and weaving into making devices to *save babies’ lives*.

In Cravings, Covets and Crushes, we are dying to get the first episodes of Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk’s webseries “Con Man”, possibly looking for people to play the official web app version of Cards Against Humanity with, discuss pretties from Knitting Fresh Brioche, Shards of Bifrost and One Geek to Craft Them All, and found some super cool fan art from Patrick Ballesteros.

Also, big and very belated thanks to Danielle who sent us some pretty stitch markers (let us know if you sell these, Danielle!), and we got a big-ass box from a certain person, so unless you want to hear Karen nearly cry on the podcast, you are warned that there’s a good chunk of squealing over that.

We’re going to be at the Toronto Knitters Frolic on Saturday, April 25th! Come meet up with us in the food area at around 1:30, or if you see us wandering around before that, say hello! We love meeting listeners, even if Karen is total fail at remembering names.

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for the Handknit Yarn Studio summer shawl knitalong. This is good as…I kinda bought yarn from them a couple weeks ago. And yarn from a couple places in Toronto a couple weeks before that. I’ve bought some yarn: http://www.julie-asselin.com , is what I’m saying.

OMG so much to talk about so forgive us if we don’t get to your favourite thing in the Geek-verse. There’s just so much.

Agents of Shield returns!: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2364582/

Speaking of Emma – Disney’s Live Action Beauty and the Beast, along with Josh Gad (for Lefou and Dan what’s his face from Downton Abbey as the Beast, and Luke Evans as Gaston…I can’t wait to hear about casting for Lumiere, Cogsworth, Mrs. Potts, etc.): AND NOW IAN MCKELLEN AS COGSWORTH. THIS IS WITCHCRAFT. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2771200/

Almost Ultron time! Select cinemas in the US and Canada are doing an epic Marvel Marathon–11 movies, 24+ hours. Karen is super tempted but that would mean seeing Ultron without Maggie, and there’s no way in hell she’d be able to get the day off. Also she’d probably rather do that at home with a bathroom and kitchen nearby.

So as episode 100 is being beset by technical difficulties (of the recorded-an-entire-episode-and-it’s-entirely-unusable variety), instead we bring you a special episode! Yes, it’s commentary time! This one was recorded back around Christmas when Karen’s brother was home for the holidays and they recorded a commentary for the movie that pretty much was their childhoods: Jurassic Park. Hear tales of what it was like back in the dark, dark days before the internet, marvel at how Jurassic Park is the *worst designed theme park in the world*, and savor Samuel L. Jackson being his Samuel L. Jacksoniest.

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In this episode, Karen and Maggie fill in each other about their holidays and any knitty things they received and knitting time (or lack thereof) they had. Maggie spent her holidays in the Bahamas and worked on the Zipper socks and Swirly mittens, but didn’t get them finished between all the family things as well as her high school reunion. She’s also been busy putting together a swap package for the Dresden swap on the Odd Duck Swaps group on Ravelry, so there’s a fair bit she can’t discuss just yet, just in case.

Karen got a pile of knitting books, including The Knowledgeable Knitter and the most recent Unofficial Downton Abbey Knits and Jane Austen Knits issues. She also FINISHED THE THERE AND BACK AGAIN SCARF in time for the Hobbit movie marathon at her local theatre two days before the official release date of The Battle of Five Armies. She’s also working on a Seeekrit Bebe Project and while she can’t talk about the pattern, she can discuss the yarn she’s using. She also finished her Rhinebeck sweater aka the Saddleback Cardigan and just needs to order buttons for it and finished most of a pair of movie socks thanks to the marathon and seeing Five Armies twice more during that one week. Of course as she’s finished a couple things she’s also started the Tauriel socks as well as picking up the Smocks of Love socks that she abandoned for bigger projects, like, 6 months ago, as well as starting a scarf based on the TGV (Tricoter Grand Vitesse) scarf pattern. She, uh, might also have bought some yarn, including Wollmeise.

Also, there is discussion of New Year’s Resolutions/goals, so stay tuned until the end of the year to see what actually comes of those and how fast plans are broken.

In Geek Squee, we saw the Hobbit, big surprise, so naturally there’s discussion of that. We also found out that Ming Na Wen (aka Melinda May from Agents of SHIELD, aka Maggie’s personal hero) IS A KNITTER, OMG SO AWESOME; have seen the first two episodes of Agent Carter, which, LOVE; DC comics has introduced a new Power Girl with all kinds of STEM talents and sans boob window; Karen has been super-duped excited about the new SHIELD comic starring some of the characters from Agents of SHIELD; and finally, there’s going to be a Babybatch!

In Cravings, Covets and Crushes, Think Geek continues ruining our credit cards by introducing a Captain America 3-piece towel set, Neil Gaiman is releasing his new book, “Trigger Warning”, and Karen found some SUPER ADORABLE magnetic bookmarks from the Etsy shop CraftedVan, a lot of which feature things from our favourite tv shows and movies.

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As a little stocking stuffer, here’s the version of “Santa Baby” that we recorded and released with the podcast a couple Christmases ago, this time on its own. Merry Christmas to all our listeners who celebrate it! (For those that don’t, put your feet up and knit something on your day off ) The lyrics are under the “Read More” if you want to read them.

In this episode, Karen and Maggie are firmly ensconced in the blanketfort and they are never coming out.

First: Sheep to Shawl! Karen and Maggie were part of the Agents of SHEEP that competed at the Royal Winter Fair Sheep to Shawl competition in November. Despite being mostly first time competitors, an early start, a wheel that BROKE MID-COMPETITION their shawl won *drumroll*……FIFTH PLACE of nine teams! And just as important or possibly even more so, a certain Agent of SHIELD retweeted their team photo, which your hosts are *still giggling over*. :D:D:D

In Adventures in Knitting, Maggie finished the Grimm Scarf, have made (unpatterned) a slouch and a beanie from her handspun for Christmas gifts, started working on Alice Socks by Patti Waters for a friend from college, but switched to Patti’s Zipper Socks for ease of knitting, and the Swirly Mittens for her mother are…still going. She’s also SUPER EXCITED about seeing Gabriel Iglesias perform when she goes back to the ancestral homeland. Karen, meanwhile, is almost done the There and Back Again Story Scarf (aka the Scarf of Doom). SO CLOSE. Sooooooo close! Of course she also knocked two days off the time she had to finish it because she couldn’t resist the urge to go to a Hobbit movie marathon. Whoops. She’s even planning a project to cast on as soon as she’s done: the Tauriel Socks from the Winter 2014 Knitty.

In Geek Squee, Karen and Maggie try to keep it short but can’t resist freaking out about the mid-season finale of Agents of SHIELD because OMG YOU GUYS. Also because there was a certain knitter pilgrimage location that was used as a location in one of the episodes. Also they both saw Big Hero 6 and LOVED IT. Seriously, diverse group of superheroes that use science to save the world, a giant cuddly robot; this is right in our wheelhouse. Karen is also loving the show “The Librarians” and its cheesy, cheesy goodness, Maggie’s enjoying “Constantine” and is making a sadface at the thought it might get the axe, Christopher Lee (Aka Saruman the White from Lord of the Rings, aka the actual most interesting man in the world) has released a heavy metal Christmas album, and apparently there was some Star Wars thing that happened recently?

In Cravings, Covets and Crushes, we’re squeeing over quite a few things in the new Knitty, Karen has a new mug from potter and ceramicist Maaike Charron which is *super adorable*, and we found the source for all the super cool Marvel con-exclusive merch you see at New York Comic Con, ReedPOP Supply Co.

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In Adventures in Knitting, Maggie did not buy anything at Rhinebeck, somehow, and has given up on the There and Back Again Story Scarf. Instead she’s working on the Sock Head Hat for her sister-in-law, has done some more spinning practice and on her Grimm scarf, and she’s finished a slouch hat for her brother. Karen, meanwhile, bought…maybe not a lot by Rhinebeck standards, but still bought quite a bit of stuff. Sadly, she did not finish the Saddleback Cardigan in time for Rhinebeck and it will languish unfinished for a while yet, as she’s too busy trying to finish the There and Back Again Story Scarf. She also went to the Avengers STATION exhibit in Times Square and OMG SAW COULSON’S SUIT as well as a bunch of other stuff but OMG COULSON.

And speaking of which, we can finally announce our team name for the Royal Winter Fair Sheep to Shawl competition: The Agents of SHEEP, and the inspiration for our shawl is “Out of the darkness, into the light”. Really, like any of you are surprised.

In Geek Squee, ALL THE MARVEL NEWS. Age of Ultron trailer leak, Cumberbatch possibly as Dr. Strange, announcement of Phase 3 and a partridge in a pear tree. We’ve also found a super cute and amazing recreation of the Ghostbusters trailer by four middle-school girls, Daniel Radcliffe was on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon rapping, and there’s a hilariously epic video for Rob Cantor’s “Shia LeBoeuf”. Seriously, you need to see this one. Oh, and Maggie’s seen the first episode of Constantine, and wants to see more.

In Cravings Covets and Crushes, we mentioned a lot of stuff in the Rhinebeck discussion, so we’re just swooning over the new material J.K. Rowling has released on Pottermore, especially her character profile of Dolores Umbridge.

Thanks to all the listeners and other great podcasters we met at Rhinebeck! This week we mentioned the Fiber Fangirls blog, and Jadee’s videocasts, Twisted Strands Podcast! (We’ll be mentioning more in future episodes. :D)

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In this episode, your hosts aren’t dead yet, and they’re trying something new due to scheduling and transportation difficulties.

In Adventures in Knitting, Maggie was working on the There and Back Again Story Scarf (um…stay tuned on that one) as well as her no-pattern Grimm scarf, as well as the Chroma Stocking Cap for the Elfling as well as doing some spinning with the fleece she bought a few months ago. Karen, meanwhile, is also working on the There and Back Again Story Scarf, but also has her Rhinebeck Sweater (again…stay tuned on that one) for which she’s knitting the Saddleback Cardigan. She was also very good when it comes to shopping at the Kitchener-Waterloo Knitters Fair.

In Geek Squee, Karen is swamped with FEELS over Agents of SHIELD (in addition to being swamped with schoolwork), Emma Watson is made of awesome and has started the He For She campaign, there’s a petition to erect a statue of Wolverine in his hometown of Edmonton, Alberta and Deadpool is getting a movie…which could be rated PG-13? And in something way classier, there are photos of Benedict Cumberbatch as Richard III in The Hollow Crown and damn. It also has Andrew Scott, Michael Gambon and Judi Dench so needless to say we’re so watching this when it comes out on TV.

In Cravings, Covets and Crushes we’re swooning over the fannish leather jackets from FanJackets.com (as well as the James Bond tuxes, *growls*), and Karen is SUPER DISAPPOINTED IN YOU PEOPLE because only now did she find the Mad Geek Tour Yarn & Fiber Club from Mad Color Fiber Arts and Jessalu Bags and there was a Marvel themed yarn club in the summer! With “Don’t Touch Lola” yarn! *pouts* Also, thanks to the Stitch Sisters Podcast, now we know about another source for fairly inexpensive yarn, Willow Yarns. Thanks a lot, guys.

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Here it is, the recording of the panel we did at the KW Knitters’ Fair, along with the wonderful Teresa from the CanaryKnits podcast and fabulous Sasha of SheepSpot! Thanks so much to the KW Knitters Guild for having us, especially Jenn who organized the fair, Iris, our wonderful moderator for the panel, and Colin, our sound guy. Also it was great meeting some more of our listeners at the Fair; we love you guys and it’s always great to find out that actual real people listen to us.

There was a bit of missing audio from one copy, so the first 20 minutes or so is from my iPod Touch with an internal mic and sounds like it. The sound gets better, don’t worry. Also, the only editing I’ve done is to cut down on pauses while microphones were passed around, so you guys will get to hear how we actually talk before I edit the crap out of it.

Oh and one bit of news: Maggie and I will officially be AT RHINEBECK on the Saturday and I’ll be there on Sunday as well. Come look for us at the podcaster meetup at 1pm, which is basically right beside/in the Ravelry meetup. I have read that this is on a hill near the main gate, but as I haven’t been there before I can’t give specific directions. Check the Rhinebeck Ravelry group for updates. And if you can’t make it to the meetup, we’ll be wearing our K1G2 shirts so you can spot us. PLEASE come say hello! We’ll probably squeal at you, so you have nothing to fear about saying hi. And we’ll have a portable microphone so there will likely be recording at Rhinebeck as well.

SEE YOU AT RHINEBECK. :D:D:D:D

–Karen

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In this episode apparently Karen has been neglecting her appropriate blood sacrifices or something because seriously you guys.

In Adventures in Knitting, Karen’s Rhinebeck plans are a bit…up in the air at the moment thanks to certain civic duties, but she’s still working on the Saddleback Cardigan as well as the There and Back Again Story Scarf, and even found time to make a fez! Maggie has started her There and Back Again again, and seems to be off to the races–third time’s the charm? She’s also taught the Elfling how to knit (briefly), made some progress on a simple scarf and has been working on the Swirly Mittens, all while battling startitis.

In Geek Squee, Karen went to FanExpo (after going on a freaking adventure) and became an official SHIELD agent (no really, she has the ID and everything), and Dragon Con was this weekend so there’s tons of cosplay photos online, woo! Also we got lost of new TV with the beginning of Season 8 of Doctor Who and the first few episodes of Outlander (aka Fifty Shades of Plaid), Maggie has gotten sucked into Grimm, there’s a teaser trailer for Agents of SHIELD, and Sherlock got a boatload of Emmy awards! We’ve also got a Kickstarter campaign for Hullabaloo, a cool-looking steampunk animated film, and we’ve got a really cool development in solar technology that could turn windows into solar collectors.

In Cravings, Covets and Crushes, we’ve found a bag made to look like the door of Bag End (OMG WANT) from Forgiantica Leather as well as some amazing nerdy buttons, prints and plushies from Snooze Labs (including the 8th Doctor SO CUTE WANT SO MUCH OMG).

We’re going to be speaking at the Kitchener-Waterloo Knitters’ Fair on Sept. 13th! We’ll be on a panel with Teresa of the Canaryknits podcast, and Sasha of the former SpinDoctor podcast for a panel about knitting, yarn, podcasting and doubtless other things as well. Click the button below or head to http://www.kwknittersguild.ca/fair/ for more details. (Also yes, we’re looking at how we’d record said panel.)

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SPOILER WARNING: There are spoilers for Guardians of the Galaxy from 34:04 to 52:33.

Also CONTENT WARNING: One of the items we discuss involves domestic violence and the teenage sole survivor of a family tragedy. If this is a sensitive topic for you, that segment runs between 1:05:27 and 1:08:19.

In this episode we can’t get that OogaChaka song out of our heads, but we just don’t care because something has to keep us going.

In Adventures in Knitting, Maggie is nearly done the Pine Forest Baby blanket, has been spreading the gospel of spinning to visiting family, and has already started doing some embroidered Christmas ornaments from mmmcrafts. Not that she’s avoiding a certain frogged double knitting project. Meanwhile, practically the only thing Karen’s been knitting is the There and Back Again Story Scarf, with some time out to work on some movie socks and to start the Saddleback Cardigan, AKA her Rhinebeck Sweater. :D:D:D She also kinda maybe sorta bought some yarn but it’s TOTALLY JUSTIFIED, YOU GUYS.

In Geek Squee, we saw Guardians of the Galaxy, and OMG YOU GUYS. There’s also some big casting news for Agents of SHIELD, more bullshit excuses about why there isn’t a Black Widow or other female-led Marvel movie yet, and Warner Bros. has changed the release date of the Batman & Superman movie. There’s a photoshop of Chris Pratt that we really really want to be real now as well as some casting rumours for Sherlock we’d like to be real but highly doubt are, there is now officially an otter that is named after Benedict Cumberbatch, and a news item we saw that is tragic and sad but has a little kernel of hope and the power of books in it. Seriously, check out the content warning above.

In Cravings, Covets and Crushes, Hot Toys has some amazing new figures for Groot, Rocket Raccoon and Gamora which are incredibly detailed as usual, and we have our favourite items from the new Twist Collective.

We’re going to be speaking at the Kitchener-Waterloo Knitters’ Fair on Sept. 13th! We’ll be on a panel with Teresa of the Canaryknits podcast, and Sasha of the former SpinDoctor podcast for a panel about knitting, yarn, podcasting and doubtless other things as well. Click the button below or head to http://www.kwknittersguild.ca/fair/ for more details. (Also yes, we’re looking at how we’d record said panel.)

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In this episode we’ve passed both Karen’s birthday and K1G2′s third anniversary. Yay!

In Adventures with Knitting, Maggie has…frogged her Hobbitalong scarf (*insert Dramatic Gopher*). It’s currently in time out. But her Kernel scarf and her Madame Phelps shawl, finished the first Neldoreth sock, finished the Milanese Lace toper (with her own handspun!) and has been doing some spinning practice. Karen, meanwhile, has been slogging along with the There and Back Again Scarf, and pretty much nothing else (other than movie socks) because summer at a public library and end of the college summer semester (by the way, to any teachers, when she says “decent grade” she means at least as high as the A which is her lowest course grade so far, don’t panic).

In Geek Squee, OMG GET INTO THE BUNKERS, J.K. Rowling wrote a short Harry Potter story and the first episode of Season 8 of Doctor Who has leaked online. Also, the latest Dresden Files novel, “Skin Games”, is out and Maggie is freaking out; she’s also laughing at the Canadian/geeky references in Kevin Hearne’s “Shattered”. If you’re a Dresden fan, keep an eye on the “Odd Duck Swaps” group on Ravelry, as they’ll be doing a Dresden one in future. Emmy nominations are out, and Sherlock and Cosmos are nominated for a bunch of stuff. Karen is going to go on the warpath if Cosmos doesn’t win almost everything. There’s also news about some character changes in the upcoming Constantine tv show, Fox cancelled Heiroglyph beofre it even premiered, people may actually believe triceratops still roam the earth (we’re convincing ourselves that that’s not the case for the good of humanity), and Emma Watson has been appointed as the UN Women’s goodwill ambassador.

In Cravings Covets and Crushes, we have artwork by aliciamb on redbubble of unusual patronuses (as well as a lot of adorable cards featuring other fandoms), and the American Museum of Natural History is offering sleepovers for grownups. WANT. Also, if you’re still not over this season of Game of Thrones or want to stock up for next year, the Wines of Westeros has classy ways to drown your sorrows.

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Episode 93

Adventures in Knitting:

Maggie:

The Hobbit A Long: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/there-and-back-again-story-scarf

Some lucky souls saw a 17- minute preview of Guardians of the Galaxy and say it looks SUPER AWESOME.

Emmy nominations! Cosmos got nominated for a BUNCH of things, Martin and Benedict are both nominated for Sherlock, if you want the OMG SUPER HUGE list, go over to the emmy website: http://www.emmys.com

In this episode we come to you from a simpler time when we were so innocent and had more hopes for the Toronto Blue Jays’ chances this year. In the present, yay, Karen’s semester is over and there are more episodes to come soon.

In Adventures in Knitting, Karen has made some progress on the There and Back Again Story Scarf despite the occasional dropped stitch. She’s also been working on the Smocks of Love socks as well as the Twisted Vine stitch patterned socks. If that wasn’t enough she’s also started the Passion Flowers shawl and started doing some spinning, because she had *no freaking idea* how crazy her schedule was about to get. Meanwhile Maggie has also been practicing her spinning (after finding out the difference between roving and top) and is working on a Milanese Lace Topper from the results, and has been working on her Neldoreth socks and her There & Back Again. She’s also been doing some blocking, though she’s now learned the lesson that blocking and cats do not mix.

In Geek Squee, OMG THERE’S GOING TO BE A SHERLOCK CHRISTMAS EPISODE….in 2015. Queen Elizabeth visited the set of Game of Thrones and was five feet from the Iron Throne but never actually sat in it, making photo captioners weep worldwide, we finally have a release date for Season 8 of Doctor Who (which coincidentally enough has perfect timing for the Who program Karen’s doing at her library), Matt Smith as well as “a couple friends” will be at Fan Expo this year and it’s been confirmed that Nathan Fillion has a cameo in Guardians of the Galaxy. In techy news, there’s a movement headed by Google and Code School to teach girls to code, the Tesla electric car company is making all their patents open-source, there’s a movement to get NASA’s funding increased and Karen’s found some interesting card games based on the idea of time travel, one of which is hilarious in that sick-sense-of-humour kind of way. Also we have to give all the props to Alicia Montano, Olympic track athlete who ran an 800m race while 8 months pregnant. SO METAL.

In Cravings Covets and Crushes, Cookie A has designed the very socks you’re looking for, the Jedi Mind Trick socks, for Marvel fans there’s the Wolverine’s Adamantium Socks (complete with slipped stitches for his claws!) and if you need a truly awesome knitting basket, there’s the Legacy Leather Knitting Basket from Renaissance Art Handmade Leather.

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In this episode, Karen and Maggie went to Niagara Falls Comic Con, and it was Elfling’s first con. Awwww. They saw much merch, got photos of all the cool stuff, and Karen found a friend though his packaging could now use some updating.

When it comes to Adventures in Knitting…we won’t mention the Hobbitalong scarves, okay? Okay. Not that your hosts have been idle, as Karen is almost finished her Turtlepurl stripey socks, has started the Smocks of Love socks in some Koigu from her copious stash, and has almost finished one of her movie socks. However more importantly, Karen is saving her pennies so she can…OMG GO TO RHINEBECK THIS YEAR. :D:D:D:D Meanwhile, Maggie has finished the Baby Chalice blanket she was triyng to get done before a baby shower, and has also finished her Kernel scarf. Yaaay! Also, your hosts are joining a team from their knitting group in the Sheep to Shawl competition at this year’s Royal Winter Fair and seriously you guys, we have come up with the most awesome concept ever. SO EXCITED.

In Geek Squee, two more women are joining the cast of Star Wars Episode VII, there are two Reddit AMAs that we’ve been reading and drooling over (seriously, Pedro Pascal and Clark Gregg in the same week HELLO HAPPY PLACE), there’s an adorable music video made by eight year old girls about how science is awesome, and LEGO has FINALLY approved the female scientist minifig set. Also, Karen has seen X-Men: Days of Future Past, and Maggie has read the new Harry Dresden Files book. She’s also found an amazing group of fans called the Dresden Files Fan Filming that made their own (creator-approved!) fan trailer.

In Cravings, Covets and Crushes, if you’ve got 20 grand lying around you can become a corpse in one of the upcoming Song of Ice and Fire books to support charity. Great gift–what could say “I love you” better than choosing what kind of gory death you get to have? Also, we found some amazing Viking metalwork-inspired cookies by Honeycat Cookies, and sorry not sorry, listeners in Europe, we’ve found Etsy seller Shleep Yarns who is located in France and has seriously gorgeous hand-dyed silk yarns.

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SPOILER WARNING: Spoilers for the Agents of SHIELD season finale from 25:45 to 31:40.

…And, y’know, don’t listen to this one around the kids (like that’s ever a good idea with us, though). In this episode, Karen is full of feels, so consider yourself warned. Don’t worry, if she gets too out of control, newly-minted red belt Maggie can take her down.

In Adventures in Knitting, Maggie’s been freaking out and madly knitting on a last-minute Baby Chalice Blanket, and nothing else because oh God, she needs to finish this baby blanket stat, and oh by the way, she’s kind of committed to make another baby blanket as well as a baby quilt. Whoops. Karen, meanwhile, finished the Metallurgy Shawl in time to give it to her supervisor at her retirement dinner, and has been working on the Traveling Vine socks from More Sensational Knitted Socks as well as her Turtlepurl self-striping socks in the Purple Purple 5th Anniversary colourway. She also did actually take out her stash and spread it out on her living room floor and took pictures of her stash (including a couple of her lying on her stash, which are never going to see the light of day because wow, unflattering angle). Thanks to the tossing of the stash, she’s also found some leftover balls of fingering weight yarn that she’s turning into a striped tube scarf of her own devising.

Oh, and if there are any people with tickets to the Welcome to Night Vale show in Toronto on July 2nd, let Karen know as she’s going. There could be dinner! Not containing outlawed wheat or wheat by-products, of course.

In Geek Squee, it’s time for the TV network upfronts, and we got the news that ABC has picked up the “Agent Carter” series to run during “Agents of SHIELD”‘s midwinter break (and during its new time slot of 9pm), and the CW has picked up the “Flash” tv show, which we saw a promo for and which looks interesting. Of course it was also the Agents of SHIELD finale recently and Oh God, you guys, seriously, you will not believe how much we had to lower the audio for this bit because omgomgomgomgomgomg. This episode recorded a little loud anyway, and, um…yeah. Anyway…twitter has also been celebrating the month of May with Agent May facts, under the hashtag #Mayisms. Seriously, these are hilarious. We also watched the promo for the upcoming FOX show “Hieroglyph” which looks…interesting? We’re also curious about the new “Constantine” TV series. Also in casting news, Channing Tatum has been cast to play X-Man Gambit in an upcoming movie, and fans are…not convinced. Warner Brothers has also set the release date for “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” (Nov. 18th, 2016!), there’s a separate series of Archie comics called “Afterlife with Archie” where Riverdale has fallen to the zombie apocalypse, and Jim Butcher did an AMA on Reddit (which Maggie sadly missed).

In Cravings, Covets and Crushes, Hot Toys has done it again with its eerily life-like Sam “Falcon” Wilson figure, and in case you need to do some heavy drinking during Game of Thrones, Ommegang Brewery and HBO have you covered with a few different GoT-themed beer varieties. They even have a beer finder on their website so you can see if you can get it in your area!

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In this episode, Karen has broken Maggie’s brain with stuff she found on the internet, what else is new.

In Adventures in Knitting, Karen and Maggie had a great time as usual at the Knitters’ Frolic (hello to those we introduced to the podcast and to the listeners we were able to meet) and, of course, bought yarn (and fleece, and blocking wires, and needles, and…). Of course some of the new goodies will have to wait, as both of your hosts are working on their There and Back Again Story Scarves. Maggie has left project monogamy far behind, as she’s also working on the Kernel scarf and started a pair of Neldoreth Socks. Karen, meanwhile, makes no pretensions to project monogamy, though she’s mostly been working on the Metallurgy Shawl she’s making as a retirement gift. Wait, does that mean Karen has been working on one project and is knitting something for someone else? Did your hosts swap bodies or something? Karen’s also taken a picture of her stash. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Meanwhile in Geek Squee, we’ve seen some awesome cosplay, including an epic Death Star gown, a Boba Fett ballgown, an adorable K-9 poodle skirt, an amazeballs steampunk Rowena Ravenclaw, and an amazing interpretation of Smaug. Maggie also has a tiny cosplayer of her own for Free Comic Book Day. There are a couple indie films that are being distributed online from a couple of our favourite people, namely Joss Whedon’s “In Your Eyes” and Clark Gregg’s “Trust Me.” McDonalds is making us headdesk about their gendered toys, and an a similar note, we got cast photo for Star Wars Episode 7, yay! There’s like one new female character, boo.

Finally in Cravings, Covets and Crushes, we have found the amazingness that is the Men in Knitwear calendar, and the Handmade Stuffs etsy shop. Two things to brighten our day.

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SPOILER WARNING: There are spoilers for Captain America 2 starting at 7:00 and continuing to the end, spoilers for episodes 16 and 17 of Agents of SHIELD from 50:45 to the end.

So in this episode Karen, Maggie, and the Illustrious Michelle have thoughts about Captain America 2 and episodes 16 and 17 of Agents of SHIELD (which was all we’d seen at that point, so have fun with the stuff we were SO WRONG about).

Lots of thoughts.

Lots and lots of thoughts. (No, seriously, check out the running time.)

So check that your air conditioning is operational and roll up those sleeves, because there’s an explosion of flailing, swooning, feels and Pheels coming your way.

#ITSALLCONNECTED.

BTW, your hosts will definitely be at the Knitters’ Frolic in Toronto on Sat. Apr. 26th. Find us! Say hi! We may have stickers!

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In this episode, your hosts are preparing for the feels and thrills they’re likely to experience in Captain America 2 (message from the future: they were not remotely prepared). Karen’s started another sock using a stitch pattern she found, finished the Irish Mesh Cowl for her mother and has also started the Metallurgy shawl as a retirement gift, while Maggie is working on the Kernel Shawl and got some yarn with possibly the best name ever. Both are also planning tactics for the invasion of the Indigodragonfly booth at the Knitters Frolic as well as contemplating the upcoming There And Back Again Story Scarf-along as they wait for their yarn to arrive.

In Geek Squee, there’s some comic book/movie news, as Karen is losing it over Agents of SHIELD casting news (OMG COULSON/CELLIST FOREVER, also check out Page Branson’s fan art and the Level 7 Access Podcast), Chris Evans is likely only going to be acting to finish his Marvel contract then trying his hand at directing, there’s more news and some promo art released for Equinox, the teen Cree nation superhero that will be appearing in the Justice League Canada run of Justice League United. In non-comic news, Mark Gatiss obviously enjoys driving Karen bonkers as he’s teased the possibility of a Jane Austen-centred Doctor Who episode, and Patrick Stewart is going to be doing voicework for Cosmos (which, if you can watch it and are not, you need to look at your life choices).

In Cravings, Covets and Crushes, Karen bought some yarn and Tumblr may hate her for it, because seriously, londrawyarn.ca has some amazing one-of-a-kind handspun yarns.

Also, there is much squealing as your hosts received another package from New Zealand with some special hobbity stuff (and lots of chocolate. THANK YOU AWILDA!

BTW, your hosts will definitely be at the Knitters’ Frolic in Toronto on Sat. Apr. 26th. Find us! Say hi! We may have stickers!

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In this episode, Karen would like to apologize for the throat-clearing and sniffling she didn’t manage to edit out.

Of course in Adventures in Knitting, both your hosts mainly have their Ravellenic Games projects to talk about, and not much else. Well, except for a little gloating over hockey and gold medals, along with their thoughts on the opening and closing ceremonies of the winter games.

In Geek Squee, speaking of Olympics and knitting, the Finnish snowboarding team had a project that got a lot of coverage, and if anyone’s spotted this project on Ravelry let us know. We’ve also found some interesting information on knitting as code during the Second World War, as well as some hand-knit gifts for scientists at CERN. There’s some discussion about recent comments from Marvel Studios about a Black Widow movie (as well as a somewhat ranty update on the topic from Karen), a trailer for Guardians of the Galaxy, and Karen has been buying some comics. Meanwhile, Maggie has found some amazing recasting of Game of Thrones characters with Disney princesses and some familiarly-shaped sand dunes on Mars, and Karen’s heard a rumour of a Space Jam sequel (?!?) as well as a new miniseries for the show “Heroes”.

In Cravings, Covets and Crushes, we have another source for wonderfully geeky project bags (Karen is hiding her credit card as we speak), as well as an amazing Sherlock-inspired yoke cardigan. Also, we need to amass an army to support the Agents of SHIELD Lego kit over on Lego Cuusoo, because Karen needs the Coulson minifig and Lola kit at the very least.

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In this episode, Maggie and Karen are finishing things in advance of the Ravellenic Games! Maggie’s finished her Zipper Socks, but has some stitches to pick up that were dropped on her Swirly Mittens, which will have to wait until after the Games and her yet-to-be-decided-on shawl is hopefully finished. Karen, meanwhile, has finished her Inara Sweater (FINALLY), is nearly finished the Honey Cowl and will be doing the The Wallpaper Had it Coming (Again) Mittens for her Ravellenic Project.

And apparently we’re going to be starting a There and Back Again Story Scarf knitalong sometime soon, because people are feeding our craziness.

In Geek Squee, there is news and trailers for all the things. New Captain America: The Winter Soldier trailer! Fox/National Geographic’s reboot/update of Carl Sagan’s “Cosmos” hosted by Neil DeGrasse Tyson! Benedict Cumberbatch with Sesame Street characters! We also found a great Geeky ABC by artist Otis Frampton, a YouTube video of Neil Gaiman reading Green Eggs and Ham for charity, and oh God, JKR whacked the hornet’s nest that is Potter fandom by saying she isn’t convinced anymore that Ron and Hermione should have ended up together. Also: OMG Thor 2 outtake with Tom Hiddleston IN THE CAP COSTUME. Speaking of costumes, we also got the first reveal of the 12th Doctor’s outfit.

For Cravings, Covets and Crushes, we had a belated exchange of holiday gifts, including some awesome nerdy jewelry from Spiffing Jewelry.

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In this episode, the accumulated feels from various fandoms are getting to Karen, namely Doctor Who, Sherlock and particularly Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (I’M SORRY PHIL, WE NEVER MEANT FOR THAT TO HAPPEN.)

Good thing your hosts have knitting! Though their goals for this year may drive them around the bend, as they’re both now really tempted to do the There And Back Again Story Scarf (in double knitting) for the final Hobbitalong. That or the sheep to shawl they’re planning to participate in this November. In more traditional Adventures in Knitting, Maggie has to mend her Easy Ruffle Coat (aka the One By One Slice of Crazy Pie sweater), has finished her Zipper socks, and has been occasionally knitting away at her Swirly Mittens. Meanwhile Karen has “finished” (not blocked, whoops) her Bigger on the Inside shawl, and managed to start and finish an entire TGV High-Speed Knitting scarf since the last time they recorded. She’s also working on the Irish Vine Mittens (sloooowly).

In Geek Squee, there is much Marvel TV news, with some guest casting announcements for Agents of SHIELD, as well as confirmation that a Peggy Carter tv show is in development (!!!!!!!!). There’s also an invitation from Leonard Nemoy to be his honourary grandchildren, and a seriously epic apartment that will have Star Trek fans wanting to make a new friend for sleepover purposes.

In Cravings, Covets and Crushes, we’ve found a Tauntaun Hoodie at WeLoveFine.com, some awesome geeky pendants and lockets from and some amazing yarn bowls from EarthWoolFire.tumblr.com

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Show Notes for Episode 85Agents of Pheels

Adventures in Knitting

The Name of the Doctor Scarf: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/the-name-of-the-doctor-double-knit-scarf
There and Back Again Scarf: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/there-and-back-again-story-scarf
One by One Slice of Crazy Pie: http://www.ravelry.com/projects/MASalter/easy-ruffle-coat
Zipper socks: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/zipper-socks
Creamed conch mittens: http://www.ravelry.com/projects/MASalter/kiehkuralapaset—swirly-mittens
Bigger on the Inside Scarf: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/bigger-on-the-inside
Handmaiden CasbahL http://handmaiden.ca/yarn.html
TGV High Speed Knitting for Trainspotting for Stitch Nerds: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/tgv-high-speed-knitting
Irish Vine Mittens: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/irish-vine-mittens
Palette: Hollyberry and Gosling: http://www.ravelry.com/yarns/library/knit-picks-palette
Iron Druid Series: http://kevinhearne.com/books

In this episode we bring you a break from the routine with some discussion of episode 3×01 of BBC’s Sherlock, “The Empty Hearse”. So yeah, spoilers.

Oh, and if you’re not into Sherlock, don’t despair–we’ll have a regular episode out in a few days. We just decided to give the Sherlock discussion its own episode because, well, I’m sure you can guess why if you look at the episode length.

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Surprise! One of the things we miss about having this great community of listeners that lives in the internet is the chance to get together and geek out in person over movies and TV shows we love. So as the closest thing we can get, in this special episode we’re joined by the Illustrious Michelle to do a commentary track for episode 3 of Series 2 of Sherlock, “The Reichenbach Fall”. It seemed like a good choice considering the new episodes that will be arriving soon.

So pop in your DVD or fire up your (completely legally obtained of course) computer file, stop the clock five seconds into the episode and wait for the countdown so you can watch the episode with us.

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SPOILER ALERT! Spoilers for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug from 22:33 to 46:23.

This episode, it’s finally time for the Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, and you know what that means: we finished our Hobbitalong projects! We also bought some yarn in the Knitpicks sale, as we both have visions of colourwork mittens dancing in our heads. Maggie has cast on all the things (including some frankensocks and a pair of Swirly Mittens), while Karen is trying to hold off until she finishes her college courses for this semester and her Bigger on the Inside Shawl. It’s like someone switched our brains or something.

In Geek Squee, of course we saw The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, so of course we devote some time to discussing that. We also have news about an adorable Sesame Street “Lord of the Rings” parody, a proper Sherlock Series 3 trailer (with an interactive version with bonus footage!), an amazing fan-made Doctor Who-Sherlock crossover video that has us wanting the real thing, a tv movie/series from Disney television that will somehow combine the descendants of a number of classic fairy tale movies into one high school AU (…somehow?), and an MMORPG in development that takes place in (wait for it) Jane Austen’s Regency England. WANT.

In Cravings, Covets and Crushes, we have a couple last geeky gift ideas, including a knitted facehugger from Alien courtesy of the Knitrocious Etsy shop, lego building patterns for a variety of geeky things from chrismcveigh.com, and patterns for SERIOUSLY ADORABLE OMG Doctors (as well as a variety of other characters/people) from Allison Hoffman on Ravelry.

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In this episode, Karen has been listening to way too many of the Doctor Who audio dramas. :D? Also her exams are OVER, so the next episode should be a little more timely.

Maggie is nearing the end of her Pfeiffer scarf/hood, though with a slight miscalculation in how the hood attaches to the scarf, whoops. And that’s pretty much it for her because OMG Hobbit movie looming ever closer, though that hasn’t stopped her from making lots and lots of plans (and buying some yarn). Karen, meanwhile, has been plugging along on her Eyjafjallajokull shawl, and is nearly done, woo! She’s also been working on her Bigger on the Inside shawl (all TARDISes, no daleks), and has grand plans of a couple other things she wants to do (spoiler alert: they didn’t happen).

In Geek Squee, OMG WE HAVE A RELEASE DATE FOR SHERLOCK FROM THE BBC, announced in a rather creative way that had the fandom freaking out. Of course Karen has also been freaking out about the 50th anniversary stuff for Doctor Who, so she’s flailing about “The Day of the Doctor” (no spoilers, don’t worry), as well as “An Adventure in Space and Time”, which seriously, you need to see, but make sure you have Kleenex. There’s also “The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot” which is just priceless. Also, Jaimie Alexander is a real-life superhero (again, have tissues ready), Maggie’s been watching Sleepy Hollow, and palaeontologists have published a paper about an amazingly well-preserved baby dinosaur skeleton find.

In Cravings, Covets and Crushes, we have possibly the best pun and perfume in the world, an unusual action figure (that Karen would totally play with along with Doctor Who figures for reasons), a crazy epic umbrella, a SERIOUSLY AWESOME game for the fanfic writers and fans out there and that Karen really really wants, and the chance for you to adopt a skull. No, really. Also yay, new Twist Collective!

TARDIS sound effects are from YouTube user covausk3, other sound effects are from freesound.org

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SPOILER ALERT! There are spoilers for Thor 2: THe Dark World from 22:35 to 43:29

In this episode, Maggie’s Pfeiffer Scarf is well under way, particularly because it’s the only thing she’s working on. Karen, meanwhile, has ALL THE PROJECTS including her Ejafjallyjokull shawl, which only has a few more rows to go before the epic crochet chain-scallop cast off. Of course this means she’s also more than tempted to start more projects, especially as she’s finished her Weeping Angel socks. Next up is a Bigger on the Inside shawl, and there has been casting on of another twisted stitch cabled sock. Oh and there’s also the sweater sleeves on the go, but meh.

In Geek Squee, there’s LOTS of Doctor Who stuff out with the 50th Anniversary coming up, and oh my god you guys if you like Doctor Who and haven’t seen Night of the Doctor go watch it, and Karen’s not just saying that because she’s turned into a fangirl for a certain doctor. There’s also the Whovian version of the Bayeux Tapestry, WANT. OF course we also went to see Thor 2, and have feelings about it. Lots and lots and lots of feelings. And in related news, you guys really need to listen to the Nerdist podcast from the week pre-Thor’s release with Clark Gregg (COULSOOOOONNNN!), Tom Hiddleston and Keven Feige. And there’s also the story of the best Make a Wish Foundation gift ever. If you look up photos, be sure to have tissues handy.

In Cravings, Covets and Crushes, the holidays are getting closer and we have some…interesting gift ideas. For instance, there’s somemore Doctor Who in the form of the Wibbly Wobbly Mittley Wittley mittens, and the Gallifrey fingerless mitts. And then there’s…a TARDIS onesie. For adults. Officially licensed, too. I don’t even know, guys.

TARDIS sound effects are from YouTube user covausk3.

Time is ticking away for the Hobbitalong Part 2: The Desolation of Swatch! There’s no required pattern or yarn, just the goal of completing a project of your choice before The Hobbit Part 2: The Desolation of Smaug opens in theatres on December 13th (or whenever you’ll get to see it). Feel free to post progress and pictures here on the blog, or chat about your projects in the thread over on the Ravelry group!

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In this episode, we’ve unbarricaded the doors from Halloween, scarfed down candy and are knitting away. Maggie has been speeding along at her Pfeiffer Hooded Scarf for the Hobbitalong and is pretty sure she’s not going to have a problem finishing it in time for the movie. Karen is in a similar boat, as she’s pretty sure she won’t have a problem finishing her Eyjafjallajokull shawl in time either, even though she ripped out the entire thing since the last episode. Yes, you read that right. She was back to the same place she left off–just before the last chart of the four–in about four days, to some Doctor Who and Marvel movie marathonning, though. How much yarn she’ll have left over at the end of the shawl is another question. She’s also nearly finished the Weeping Angel socks and she’s been working on the interminable sweater sleeves.

In Geek Squee, the Nerdpocalypse seems to be upon us, as in the span of about three days, PBS announced the US premiere date for Season 3 of Sherlock (OMG IS IT JAN. 19th YET?!), and the Captain America: The Winter Soldier and the X-Men: Days of Future Past trailers all came out. We’re not sure Tumblr has recovered from the explosion. Of course in the post-Halloween geekiness, we have a picture of Sir Patrick Stewart dressed as a lobster, and Col. Chris Hadfield had the most adorable costume contest ever. There’s also a great–if very earwormy–video featuring our favourite Disney Villains in “Spell Block Tango”. Prepare to have it stuck in your head for days. There’s also a movement to mobilize the Cumberbatch fandom into doing good and a new Canadian First Nations female superhero that will be joining the Justice League (WOO!),

In Cravings, Covets and Crushes, we’ve found an Etsy store with some seriously cool Game of Thrones house emblem hoodies, a completely useless but bizarrely hilarious USB squirming tentacle you can get for the geeky loved one in your life, and two gorgeous knitting patterns: the Snow Pack Scarf by Kerin Dimeler- Laurence from the Knitpicks Glacier Bay Collection and the gorgeous Morticia shawl by Boo Knits that has recently been released post-Halloween mystery knitalong.

The Hobbitalong Part 2: The Desolation of Swatch has begun! There’s no required pattern or yarn, just the goal of completing a project of your choice before The Hobbit Part 2: The Desolation of Smaug opens in theatres on December 13th. Feel free to post progress and pictures here on the blog, or chat about your projects in the thread over on the Ravelry group!

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This week, Karen and Maggie are still not at Rhinebeck. One year, dammit! Instead we’re just knitting on our projects at home, boo. Maggie’s working on a birthday gift cowl that is certainly not going to end up with its intended recipient by their birthday, and managed to resist the whackadoodle enabling at knit night to choose a Hobbitalong pattern that she’s more likely to finish by the deadline than, say, a fingering weigh cardigan with an eyelet dragon on it. Karen, meanwhile, has been chugging along on her Hobbitalong project, but might be ripping it back a bit (spoiler alert: try all of it) as the shawl isn’t using enough of the colour shifting yarn. She’s also worked on the Weeping Angel socks as she finally saw the related Doctor Who episode and wasn’t sleeping after that anyway. Oh and there might have been a yarn purchase, but it’s super-duper special yarn so it doesn’t count.

In Geek Squee, a certain British actor with a rather attractive voice did an AMA (Ask Me Anything) on Reddit, and there was much fandom freaking out. Not helped by his basically challenging fandom to create art of himself, Tom Hiddleston and Matt Smith in a compromising position. If that wasn’t bad enough for our hormones, we found footage of Tom Hiddleston dancing at a press event in South Korea. Why? Why must you be so perfect, Hiddleston? There’s also some speculation about what other fictional characters could be Time Lords, the discovery of a tomb of an Etruscan warrior princess, some demographic data on new female comic book readers, a cool new documentary about the history of superhero comics, and speculation Marvel is putting together more tv shows. Oh and Sleepy Hollow is a thing we really need to catch up on.

In Cravings, Covets and Crushes, the Firefly board game is now a thing, OMG WE WANT IT. We also really want the Jonium shawl by Tiziana Sammuri, and a lot of shawls by Lucy Hague because DAMN.

The Hobbitalong Part 2: The Desolation of Swatch has begun! There’s no required pattern or yarn, just the goal of completing a project of your choice before The Hobbit Part 2: The Desolation of Smaug opens in theatres on December 13th. Feel free to post progress and pictures here on the blog, or chat about your projects in the thread over on the Ravelry group!

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Episode 80: Still Not at Rhinebeck

Adventures in knitting

Rhinebeck/New York state sheep and wool festival: http://www.sheepandwool.com

In this supersized episode, Karen and Maggie have both been sucked into fandoms that are going to destroy them, so there’s that. There’s also the run-down of how the Kitchener-Waterloo Knitters’ Fair went, which was…interesting. Not that that kept your hosts from making some purchases of course! They also got to go to a local fibre mill and farm and got to see alpacas (and a sheep that thinks it’s an alpaca). SO CUTE. They also have some updates on current projects (namely Maggie’s cowl for the husband and Karen’s sweater and Weeping Angels socks) including discussion of what they’re knitting for this year’s Hobbitalong, which has officially started! For the record, Karen’s knitting the Eyjafjallajökull Shawl. Also, Karen’s Mom went on vacation and bought her yarn, so Karen’s not the only one feeding her stash.

In Geek Squee, OMG NEW HARRY POTTER WIZARDING WORLD MOVIE. Needless to say, we’re all over that and there’s a fair bit of speculation that ensues. There’s also another geek actor that’s recently appeared on Sesame Street that we’re geeking out over, and a person-shaped rock that has geeks all a-twitter due to its (very vague) resemblance to a certain smuggler encased in carbonite. There’s also a fan-modified poster turning our favourite female Asgardian warrior into Wonder Woman. WANT THAT MOVIE, DC.

But it doesn’t stop there as we also have our reaction to the pilot episode of Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD as well as some calming reaction to an item of Sherlockian news you make have seen recently. Apologies if there are some weird edits in this bit and a couple things may not be crystal clear–some major edits had to take place to cut down on the blathering.

No Cravings, Covets and Crushes this week, because there’s enough new yarn talk at the beginning of the episode.

The Hobbitalong Part 2: The Desolation of Swatch has begun! There’s no required pattern or yarn, just the goal of completing a project of your choice before The Hobbit Part 2: The Desolation of Smaug opens in theatres on December 13th. Feel free to post progress and pictures here on the blog, or chat about your projects in the thread over on the Ravelry group!

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Show Notes

Episode 79: It’s Canon Now! No Take-Backs, Joss!

Adventures in Knitting:

Maggie got sucked into Game of Thrones: http://www.hbo.com/game-of-thrones

We feel we should add before starting that despite our opening, neither of us was the fangirl that called a certain actor’s hotel room at three in the morning. Really. Anyway, knitting!

Maggie is almost done her Lush cardigan! Hooray! And it’s good timing because she wants to wear it to the Kitchener-Waterloo Knitters’ Fair, which was a week away at the time of recording. She’s also finished the Elfling’s stocking cap, though perhaps not quite to the way she’d originally planned. She’s also working on some socks, so she is so not monogamous Maggie anymore. Karen’s working on the Pointelle socks and is nearly done, and of course she has a couple other pairs of socks and the Inara sweater (aka the sportweight sweater of doom) on the go, because this is Karen we’re talking about. And both of your hosts are preparing for the upcoming Hobbitalong–stay tuned for more details!

In Geek Squee, Karen went to Fan Expo in Toronto and managed to get into the Nathan Fillion Q&A panel! There was also a LOT of people. Lots. Of. People. There’s also some things we’ve seen around the internet from Dragon*Con, which sadly neither of your hosts was able to go to. There’s also news about a certain British actor with fabulous hair that has been at the Toronto International Film Festival, and who has been replaced with another of Tumblr’s favourite actors in an upcoming film, as well as a geek-god actor who will be tackling Sherlock Holmes, and a geek-god science tv host that will be Dancing With The Stars this season. There’s also been a seriously badass woman doing long-distance swimming despite the possibility of becoming a shark snack, and the possibility of some more fictional badass women on the big screen.

In Cravings, Covets and Crushes, we have an addition to the Lego cast of characters that is making us happy and some geeky additions you could make to your Christmas tree this season, or hang from your car rear-view mirror or something. We won’t judge.

We have an events thread in the Ravelry group! Organize meetups and chats or let people know about events happening in your area. There will probably be an announcement about an Agents of SHIELD premiere watch-along in there soonish.

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Episode 78: The Wrath of Con

Adventures in knitting

Lush Cardigan: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/lush-5

Wellington Fibres: http://wellingtonfibres.on.ca

Lothlorien Capelet that Karen made last year: http://www.ravelry.com/projects/knitwit1912/lothlorien-cape

This week Maggie is back in the country without much knitting to show for her trip as there was a non-knitting project that demanded most of her time. She has done a little more on her Lush cardigan, however, not to menton got to go swimming with dolphins! Meanwhile, Karen has been her usual non-monogamous self, what with the Cookie A socks and the tiny stitches of doom socks and the wrap cardi she’s been working on.

In Geek Squee there’s LOTS of Doctor Who news, stating with the announcement of who is playing the 12th Doctor, certain companion’s names becoming very popular baby names, Google Maps adding the TARDIS to street view, and a fabulous Mr. Potato Head for the Whovians. We’ve also found a guide to creating hairstyles from Game of Thrones, and FINALLY, the CIA has admitted that Area 51 exists. So in other words the biggest reveal of a non-secret ever. There’s also a REALLY COOL podcast becoming very popular recently called “Welcome to Night Vale” that you guys seriously have to check out. Oh, and a little new casting news for Agents of SHIELD.

In Cravings Covets and Crushes, the fall issue of Twist Collective is out and we’re squealing over a number of the designs within. Also, Purlin’ J’s Yarn Co is now roaming Eastern Ontario, and we discovered Finnish etsy store Sukkaplokki, purveyor of seriously adorable knitting accessories made out of recycled plastic.

We have an events thread in the Ravelry group! Organize meetups and chats or let people know about events happening in your area. There will probably be an announcement about an Agents of SHIELD premiere watch-along in there soonish.

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The 12th Doctor has been announced: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23570354

The TARDIS on Googlemaps: https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=51.492159,-0.19092&spn=0.005291,0.013937&sll=51.492140,-0.193028&layer=c&cid=12502927659667388442&panoid=c9UMhWP_MWm9U0L48xEjYw&cbp=13,291.8,,0,18.86&gl=US&t=m&cbll=51.492132,-0.192862&z=17Mr. Potato Head as the Doctor: http://io9.com/doctor-who-is-finally-validated-with-an-official-mr-po-1155719139

This week Maggie has a huge basket containing the results of her spinning binges, some of which is actually being turned into projects! There’s a hat, a mitten, some merino-silk and an X-Men fleece. She and Karen are also both working on sweaters. During a heat wave. Seriously, there is something wrong here. Meanwhile, Karen has also finished a cowl and is still working on a pair of socks; socks which may appear on Japanese national television. No, really. Also, Karen now has two more sweaters’ worth of yarn, thanks to some great customer service from Webs. Now she just needs to…er… find room for it.

In Geek Squee, there’s discussion of a couple movies Karen has seen recently (GUYS, GO SEE PACIFIC RIM) and of course there’s lots of news from Comic-Con about shows we love or that are coming, including Sherlock, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and the next few Marvel movies. Naturally we can’t NOT comment on the appearance of a certain villain at the beginning of the Marvel panel, nor can we resist venting our intense jealousy of those that saw clips (or ENTIRE EPISODES) of said shows. Bastards. There’s also some artwork featuring some of the most famous nerds that’s raising money for Operation Smile, as well as a certain author you may have heard of who was recently revealed as the author of a mystery novel that–until now–had some great reviews but not-so-great sales.

In Cravings, Covets and Crushes, we had a little preview of a special issue from Interweave with designs inspired by Harry Potter (an actual purchased copy, we should mention!) which sadly is only available in the United States, as well as an innovative way of writing charts for stitch patterns. This will blow your mind, people.

Finally, we got a package from a listener, so there’s a lot of squealing. THANK YOU, LAURA!

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This week, Maggie’s back! Yaaaaaay! There are lots of projects started (and not just by Karen!) and projects slogging along and there is the organization of stash. Yes, there are actual photos, look below the cut down at the bottom of the post. Oh and there are tadpoles and possible moths as well–spoiler warning: the knitting is okay. We know that probably scared you for a moment. Karen also finally saw a certain Joss Whedon movie that isn’t going to make Avengers money, but is definitely worth seeing.

In Geek Squee, there’s OMG TRAILER FOR THE SECOND HOBBIT MOVIE, and the last shooting days of some of the cast, which resulted in a hilarious video featuring a certain Lord of the Rings-related earworm that may be new to some fans. BTW, the website Karen mentioned is actually YTMND.com, whoops.

In other geek news, there was the nuptials of a certain geek icon, a website featuring an easy way to figure out just how how much your personal savings will be in wizarding world money when you get your Hogwarts letter (or in Federation credits or in Skyrim money, or…), as well as the upcoming series based on a super-popular time-travel/historical novel series.

In Cravings, Covets and Crushes, we’ve found a en Etsy shop with magnets that let you body-swap your favourite characters, as well as a collection of patterns that support relief efforts in Oklahoma City.

Finally, Maggie has a little surprise for Karen. You may want to turn the volume down slightly for this one.

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SPOILER ALERT! There are spoilers for Star Trek: Into Darkness from 25:19 to 45:20

This week it’s Karen and friend of the show Lily with a *lot* of Star Trek: Into Darkness talk.

But first! Karen has started a bunch of new projects (let’s not discuss whether she’s finished any old ones), and had some major knitting peril at the movies a couple nights before. Lily, meanwhile, talks about a few projects she’s finished and a few that she’s started, because she’s responsible like that.

Then it’s on to the Star Trek: Into Darkness squeeing, including some flailing over Chris Pine and Benedict Cumberbatch, which should surprise no one. There’s also some spacey news with the safe return of the crew of ISS Expedition 35, as well as a couple videos you’ll really want to see (including possibly the first music video filmed in space), a mention of a sci-fi show that will be premiering in the fall that looks like it could be interesting (and which stars one of the main actors from nu!Trek), as well as a full trailer for some little show that few people know about yet. Something about some agency called S.H.I.E.L.D.?

Finally for Cravings, Covets and Crushes, we have some seriously gorgeous yarn and gradient sets which you guys really need to go buy before Karen caves.

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SPOILER WARNING! There is spoilery discussion of Iron Man 3 from 32:45 to 57:30

As this was recorded soon after the previous episode and there’s a lot of Iron Man 3 squealing, it’s a bit different than our usual episodes. We talk about what we’re working on and what we’ve done, the it’s on to the Marvel squealing. However, before we get into Iron Man 3, Karen needs to express some feelings about the announcement that Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. was picked up by ABC, considering that was announced about half an hour before we recorded. She’s having FEELS, you guys!

And then it’s on to the Iron Man 3 flailing! Really, what else did you expect from us?

Oh and last but not least, there’s an important update from Maggie about why the podcast has been sporadic this last little while. But no spoilers there, as that’s her announcement.

We’re back to the usual format in the next podcast, though with one different host than normal

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As crazy scheduling and life stuff prevented us from getting together and doing a traditional podcast around the weekend of the Knitters’ Frolic, we took the show on the road to our knitting group, most of whom were with us at the Frolic. There’s discussion about the vendors and goodies we found at the Frolic, as well as discussion on a bunch of other topics: the local Agricultural fair, our hopes for Iron Man 3 the night after we recorded, some geeky things we’d seen that week, reminders that it *was* Beltane the night that we recorded…

…Oh, and some discussion about a robot inadvertently drawing certain parts of the male anatomy on Mars. You know, the usual.

Of course as this was recorded in our usual cafe and my iPod Touch proved to have a slightly more sensitive mic than I expected, my apologies for the background noise. I’ve tried to cut out the worst of it, as this is edited down from the nearly two hours that we talked. We definitely know what NOT to do for the next time!

Stick around to the end, however, as there’s a promo for a soon-to-be-released podcast that our listeners might be interested in! In a few days, you’ll be able to find the Knotty Girls Knitcast at http://knottygirlsknitcast.wordpress.com!

We’ll be back to our regular scheduled programming soon, so stay tuned!

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Episode 73: Joyriding in the Tardis

My Ovaries Over Benedict should be a yarn colorway at Indigodragonfly. Just saying!: http://indigodragonfly.wordpress.com/

This week after debating how knitting would work in zero gravity, we hop into the knitting with some recent acquisitions on Karen’s part as well as a finished project, the start of a new project and some progress on some works in progress. And pretty much all of these are socks. There’s also a large amount of squealing over a certain favourite movie of Karen’s that’s recently been re-released in 3D. Meanwhile Maggie has a couple projects she’s been working on while struggling to find the right main project now that the 1X1 Slice of Crazy Pie is done, not that that has prevented her from acquiring some new yarn from a friend’s stash. There’s also some discussion of the upcoming Knitter’s Frolic with some plans and strategies for tackling yarn events.

In Geek Squee, there’s an update about Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD, Sherlock and Captain America: The Winter Soldier, all of which we are just dying to see. Of course there’s also discussion of the news that have rocked the fandom world as Fox has started sending cease-and-desist letters to purveyors of Jayne hats. We also have a blog that demonstrates just how ludicrous some of the poses comic book characters adopt can be, as well as an event that is probably the geekiest party night of the year.

Finally in Cravings, Covets and Crushes, we have a cookbook that has some seriously drool-worthy recipes that Maggie’s dying to try, as well as a crafter of geeky figures that had us exploding with adorable.

Are you going to be at the Downtown Knit Collective’s Knitters’ Frolic in Toronto on April 27th? We’ll be there, wearing our podcast t-shirts and armed with stickers. Be sure to say hello, and to mention the 1×1 Slice of Crazy Pie that Maggie will be wearing: we’ll have chocolate with us (for as long as it lasts, of course)!

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This week Maggie has finally finished the Cardigan of Doom! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay! She’s also finished one of the many baby blankets she’s knitting, and can’t start the next one just yet, so she’s on the hunt for something new to knit. However, that’s not a hugely urgent thing as somebody has started spinning on a borrowed wheel. Muahahahaaaa another one to the dark side! Karen, meanwhile, is almost done a pair of socks (well, her usual definition of “done”, which usually doesn’t include kitchenering toes) and has picked up a project that’s been lying dormant for a couple weeks. There may also have been a little yarn acquisition that totally doesn’t count toward the “not buying yarn” thing.

In Geek Squee we have a report from the live sneak peek Peter Jackson gave of the next Hobbit movie and some discussion of some new, spoilery information about a certain character in Iron Man 3. There’s also a plea from geek icon Nathan Fillion for what he’d like as a birthday present from his fans, a trailer from the new Wolverine movie and a science-oriented winner of an annual Peep diorama contest.

In Cravings, Covets and Crushes, we have a chance to vote for some Lego sets we’d love to see, an amazing Hobbit-themed jacket (seriously people, GO LOOK AT THIS) and some yarn that is dyed-to-order and so gorgeous omg.

And finally, we have a really sweet, geeky story from a listener that made us all wibbly. Thanks for sharing it with us, Ryan! Best Geek Dad Ever!

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SPOILER ALERT! Spoilers for the The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug sneak peek run from 19:37 to 37:52.

This week, Maggie is so, SO close to finishing the Cardigan of Doom, after Karen made a perilous journey to the knitting store to get her another skein (one does not simply walk into the yarn store, after all). That hasn’t prevented her from shopping another knitter’s stash for yarn for another sweater, though, or from making more sock monkeys. Karen, meanwhile, has mostly been concentrating on surviving March Break, though she has a little progress on a couple projects, and has done some much-need knitting basket organizing. And, um, might have bought some yarn that SO DOES NOT COUNT in her efforts not to buy yarn.

In Geek Squee, Magneto is officiating at Professor X’s wedding. No, really. There’s also a new international trailer for Star Trek: Into Darkness (now with more plot!), an offer from Peter Jackson to direct Doctor Who, two girls that have made some really cool progress in science and a pretty unique historic needlework sampler. And of course we just have to mention that Sherlock has started filming series 3.

In Cravings, Covets and Crushes, we have a plea for help from our audience, and some new colourways from Blue Moon Fiber Arts that we’re drooling over. We also got a package (SQUEE! Thank youuuu!) with some really cool geeky patches that you can get for yourself.

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This week, well…it’s episode 69. There are a few things not to listen to around the kids/in-laws right off the bat, but we swear, we lay off the innuendo after the first couple minutes.

…Well, mostly.

Meanwhile in knitting, a certain project of Maggie’s is sleeping on the couch, as it has thrown yet another monkey wrench into her knitting plans. This of course means that she’s been forced into the arms of on other projects, oh noes. Karen, meanwhile, has no pretensions to monogamous knitting and so she has the same few projects in rotation as she had before, as well as being tempted to trying a fling with some new ones.

In Geek Squee, the third Hobbit movie has been pushed back a few months to when it should have come out in the first place, a freaking amazing omg LEGO model of Hogwarts, someone has actually created a suit that gives you “Spidey sense”, a planned movie for Neil Gaiman’s upcoming book and news about a convention that one of our listeners mentioned. There are also digressions about how much we want the Muppet Show to come back, as well as a show Karen loved that *is* coming back.

In Cravings, Covets and Crushes, we’re keeping an eye on the contenders in Threadless’ Sock Challenge, hoping that the Spocks will win so we can get our hands on them, drooling over some seriously gorgeous yarn from Apple Tree Knits and a way for you get your Hogwarts letter, albeit a little late.

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This week, the Spock Monkey is with its new owner (stay tuned after the outro to hear the handover, as well as a little of our knit night) and Maggie is still. working. on. the. cardigan. Karen, meanwhile, is working on a bunch of projects, as is only to be expected, though her Cachoeira socks are moving a little slowly. Not so her movie socks, though, as she got to see Les Miserables, and has a few thoughts about that particular movie. We also have proof that the newbie has her priorities in order and we have been teaching her well (and that she’s not so much of a newbie anymore)!

In Geek Squee, the question of the government’s preparedness for a zombie invasion at the southern border was brought up in Canada’s House of Commons. No really, you can find it on YouTube. Meanwhile there was a different kind of invasion in London as part of the upcoming Doctor Who 50th Anniversary special, as well as a couple new places and ways to watch it when it finally comes out. There’s also news about the mad scramble for San Diego Comic-Con tickets (any of our listeners manage to snag them? Let us know about your experience!), a PSA for anyone who has ordered from KnitPicks in the last couple months, and some interesting casting and news about X-Men: Days of Future Past.

In Cravings, Covets and Crushes, we have some Game of Thrones plushies that are *adorable*, some Lord of the Rings ceramic items that are…not quite so adorable, but should still be seen to be believed, some seriously classy Doctor Who jewelry, and a Walking Dead board game that will test your zombie survival skills. Start training now, people!

And again, stay tuned after the outro to hear Spock Monkey’s reveal to his new owner, as well as a couple minutes of our knit night. Seriously, that last squeal was originally about 14 minutes after the start of recording.

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Do you remember the Green Lantern baby blanket Maggie made at the beginning of the year? Here is the action shot with Baby Lantern… And the Nightwing Sock Monkey is his guardian while he naps… obviously.

In this episode we’re digging out from under a dumping of snow and breaking boards with our elbows and feet. Or, well, Maggie is, on that last one (YAY BLUE BELT!). We’re also working on some knitting. In Maggie’s case she has one finished object (that came in handy for her not-used-to-Canadian-winters mother recently) and is still slogging along on the Cardi That Doesn’t End (yes, we sing the song, too). Oh, and she’s finished a certain nerdy sock monkey. Karen, meanwhile, is being her usual non-monogamous self and has a new sock project as well as a very old shawl project, along with making some new knitting converts.

In Geek Squee, we have a very…unique and rather grotesque advertisement for The Walking Dead, new about an upcoming stop-motion animation steampunk comedy with some stellar talent providing voices as well as another go at a childhood classic that we are…not really thrilled about. There’s also an adaptation of Pride and Prejudice from another angle (no zombies in this one), an adorable spoof of Downton Abbey by the people at Sesame Street, a set of weapons designed for girls, and a little science fact to go with a legendary weapon. But we’re not done yet! There’s a certain monarch was found in a place that would not be the first place to look in this particular game of hide-and-seek, confirmed after some amazing genealogical sleuthing, a cartoon appearance by one of our favourite actors (doing an impression of another favourite actor!) and a hilarious parody of Les Miserables by…the South Korean Air Force. No, really.

In Cravings, Covets and Crushes, we have a neat little pattern book written by one of our listeners that might be of interest for those that want to dip their toes into stranded colourwork or want some guided help adding colour patterns to basic knits, as well as a somewhat more…unique (and NSFW) colourwork sweater that has been getting a lot of attention around the knittiverse.

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Episode 67Show Notes

Adventures in Knitting:

The cardi that doesn’t end: http://www.ravelry.com/projects/MASalter/easy-ruffle-coat

This week, once we get past some slightly off-topic talking about the weather, Maggie is attempting to be monogamous (we’ll see how long that lasts, considering she’s looking for projects that will use her sock yarn ends) and has finished a project but perhaps not the way she wanted it to be. Meanwhile, Karen has a couple finished projects (because she does actually finish things sometimes) and is planning on starting another, though what that might be might change a few times.

In Geek Squee, a couple TV shows that we are anxiously anticipating have started filming or are at least setting up some familiar-looking sets. Bonus: Maggie found some adorable sweatery cookies for when one of those shows airs! There’s also some news about the upcoming Star Wars movie, probably the best TARDIS cosplay we’ve seen yet (and yes, it’s bigger on the inside), a commemorative coin that Doctor Who fans might be interested in, and a piece of artwork that really has knitting on the brain (*rimshot*)!

In Cravings, Covets and Crushes, there’s a sweater pattern that might be of interest for the guys or those that knit for guys, as well as a seriously epic project Maggie recently discovered and that’s in a book Karen wanted to share: “Knitted Lace: A Collection of Favourite Patterns from Interweave”, edited by Anne Merrow.

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We’re back! Not all of us are running at 100%, but we’re back! And we have lots of knitting to catch up on! There’s Christmas knitting finished, unfinished and not attempted, Hobbit socks that are well on the go or nearing completion, and some new projects started. There’s also an update about one of our favourite online knitting comics!

In Geek Squee, we have some encouraging news about the new S.H.I.E.L.D. tv show (and Karen is having ALL THE FEELS) as well as an interview that makes us love Jaime Alexander (Sif from “Thor”) even more. There’s also an amazing scientific development that gets us one step closer to actual robot bodies, news about plans for a colony on Mars, some epically nerdy tweets from a certain fictional starship captain to someone who is actually in space and another sequel in the works for one of Karen’s favourite movies.

In Cravings Covets and Crushes, there’s another purveyor of nerdy yarns, some upcoming colourways from a Nerd Girl dyer, a place to shame your yarn into obedience, and a suggestion for something to keep the Harry Dresden fans going once they’ve finished the latest book.

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Some of you may have noticed that some of our older episodes mysteriously disappeared earlier this week. Good news: they’re back, as Admin Monkey was able to have the hosting service restore them from backups. They should all be in place and available through the website, RSS feed and iTunes. If you have any problems, let us know!

Also, there *is* a new episode on the way! We’ve recorded after some illness-related delays and the episode is being edited. Look for it in the next couple days, probably released in the evening.

In this episode, we’re spending the End of the World the only way we really can: talking about knitting and geeky stuff.

Of course that doesn’t mean we haven’t been knitting! Maggie’s had a success with a sock and an epic battle with a skein of yarn as well as some progress on a hat and a baby blanket. Karen, meanwhile, has been working on her Hobbit socks as well as another pair of handwarmers.

In Geek Squee, we have the best. reading. ever. of Fifty Shades of Grey, a bee with a super nerdy species name and some new designs for astronauts’ suits that might look a little familiar. There’s also an announcement about the final regular cast member of the S.H.I.E.L.D. television show, some best and worst of 2012 lists you may be interested in as well as some new entries to the National Film Registry. There’s also a really neat fan-organized way to help Sherlock in his adventures that we are SO SIGNING UP FOR.

In Cravings, Covets and Crushes, there’s the best. PC. EVER. for all the Doctor Who fans (well, those with some change in their pocket) and some really neat Hobbit-inspired patterns.

Happy New Year, everyone! We <3 our listeners!

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SPOILER WARNING! We discuss spoilers about The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey starting at 45:56 and ending at 1:03:15

First off, there’s a note for those who want to help the residents of Newtown, CT; if you’ve been avoiding the news like Karen has, just skip the first 30 seconds of the episode. We don’t mention it in the episode itself.

Then..lots of squealing and knitting and more squealing about our experience at the midnight showing of the Hobbit as much of our recent knitting is tied up in that. Of course there are other projects going on, so we fill you in on what we’ve picked up after finishing our Hobbitalong projects as well as discussing a couple things Maggie is thinking of working on sometime soon.

In Geek Squee, there are a lot of geek-related movies, tv shows and actors that received Golden Globe nominations, the zombie movie filmed at CERN is now available online for free, there’s a mystery worthy of Indiana Jones himself (and an update with the solution to the mystery!), the best Gangnam Style parody yet, and FINALLY, a trailer for the next Star Trek movie. Of course, there’s a lot of discussion of our opinions of The Hobbit (and the knitwear therein), as well as some news about one of the film locations that you can actually visit, as well as a very unique game played by some of the movie’s stars during an MTV interview.

In Cravings, Covets and Crushes, we feature Etsy seller “eattoast”, who has some unique geeky Christmas ornaments as well as some modified toys our fans are probably going to want to take a look at.

Also, right at the end of the episode there’s a little treat for our listeners, written by Karen and Maggie but performed by Karen because Maggie was too chicken.

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There won’t be much mention of the shooting in Newtown, Connecticut this past week on the podcast (for a variety of reasons, including not even being able to write this without crying!), but our hearts go out to everyone touched by this tragedy.

If you want to help, please take a look through the links, and please let us know of other opportunities in the comments.

To help using your wallet:

The families in Newtown that lost loved ones on Friday still need financial help to pay for funerals as well as for everyday things during a time when they have to take time off work to deal with everything. John Tesh’s radio show has collected a number of links of organizations offering help in the community, as has ABC News. These groups should be legitimate; if you come across others, please carefully check out any links to people or groups raising money after this or any other tragedy that you may find. Unfortunately there are always a few scammers that crop up at times like these.

To help using your needles:

There are a number of drives that have started to make stuffed animals, blankets and other cozy, comforting things for those affected. Please look for updated information on each blog or forum to see what the needs are and whether they have reached their goal, or what the status is (if they’re just gathering interest at the moment, whether they have a contact with someone in the community, whether they’re ready for people to send items, etc.). They include:

This week we’re joined by our friend Lily who went with Karen and another member of our knitting group (hi, Kris! Hope the elf-duties weren’t too horrible!) on a yarn crawl of a few of Toronto’s fine yarn stores. There is much purchasing and enabling and geekiness, of course. There are are also a couple important finished projects (finally!) and some new projects on the needles, as well as some new yarn that is appropriately named for a certain upcoming movie.

In Geek Squee, Maggie’s freaking out about the newest Harry Dresden book, a highly geeky Christmas tree, an alternate history/fantasy novel that’s getting the BBC treatment, and we have an actual synopsis for the next Star Trek movie! There’s also the world’s biggest and most awesome LARP ever, all sorts of Hobbitty news (Colbert Report! The score streaming online!), Hunger Games movie updates as well as a hilarious parody video, an announcement from NASA, and to wrap up Movember, superheroes with moustashes.

In Cravings, Covets and Crushes, we have a solution for those of you that have been asked to knit a Dr. Who scarf but who feel like strangling yourself with your yarn at the thought of it, some Dalek-inspired mittens and and amazing dress using fabric printed with a map of Middle Earth. WANT.

Any finally to wrap up, we have a package to squeal over (thank you, Awilda!) and some comments that will possibly destroy your childhood. Sorry.

Time is running out for The Hobbit: A Long-Expected Knitalong! There’s no required pattern or yarn, just the goal of completing a project of your choice before The Hobbit opens in theatres on December 14th (or when it opens in your country). Feel free to post progress and pictures here on the blog, or chat about your projects in the thread over on the Ravelry group!

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This week we’re creeping ever closer to the finish line on our Hobbitalong projects, and have either picked up other projects to keep us sane or are starting to think about what we’re going to do when we’re done our deadlines. Karen also headed out on a yarn excursion this weekend and came back with, er… souvenirs.

We’re also breaking with format to bring you an episode chock-a-block full of geeky gift ideas! There are suggestions for a homemade chemistry set, collector items (including possibly one of the oddest Avenger tie-ins we’ve seen, as well as one collectible Karen is squealing over/lusting after), unique jewellery for the Harry Potter fans, adorable (and sometimes creepy) terrariums, some seriously twisted cross stitch, nerdy nurseries, apparel for the female geek and some great fannish art prints and cartoons. There’s also a knitting pattern for some last-minute crafting as well as a pair of socks that need to be seen to be believed.

After our outro, we also have a promo for a book written by one of our listeners! ”Of Seraphim and Cherubim: An Alternative Tale of the Phantom of the Opera” by S. Compton-Myers is being e-pubbed through Amazon and Barnes & Noble’s Nook and involves a knitting, fantasy-writing heroine, as well as some seriously hot scenes. You can see more information about the book and updates about the upcoming release at the book’s blog.

Time is running out for The Hobbit: A Long-Expected Knitalong! There’s no required pattern or yarn, just the goal of completing a project of your choice before The Hobbit opens in theatres on December 14th (or when it opens in your country). Feel free to post progress and pictures here on the blog, or chat about your projects in the thread over on the Ravelry group!

Want to share your thoughts on the movies/tv/science geekery we’ve discussed, or found something geeky to share? Comment here at the blog, email us at knit1geek2@gmail.com or participate in the thread on our Ravelry group! Want to know when new episodes go live or see the occasional bit of news? Check out our Twitter feed (@knit1geek2)! And as always, we have merch in our Zazzle.com and Zazzle.ca stores.

This week we’re still chugging along at our Hobbitalong projects, though we’ve taken on a couple other projects to ease the strain (or are about to). Or for distraction at the movies, which results in a handy tip for other knitters. Karen also springs a surprise on Maggie, namely a mention of us in a knitting magazine that literally had Maggie bouncing up and down on the couch. Oh, and there’s some discussion of poutine.

In Geek Squee, there’s some news for Star Trek fans that are planning to go see the Hobbit in IMAX-3D (and which may change plans for those that haven’t bought tickets yet), another Twilight fanfic that’s turning into an actual published book, and a comic book appearance of our favourite astrophysicist. For those traveling this holiday season, there’s some stats that might help calm nervous fliers, and we also have our thoughts on the OMG SUPER ADORABLE “A-Babies vs. X-Babies” comic book we mentioned a few weeks ago.

In Cravings, Covets and Crushes, there’s a new issue of Twist Collective out and we are loving all over this issue, and we also have a suggestion for a quick-knit pattern that might be useful for those overcommitted holiday knitters.

The Hobbit: A Long-Expected Knitalong is chugging along and we have less than a month until the premiere! There’s no required pattern or yarn, just the goal of completing a project of your choice before The Hobbit opens in theatres on December 14th. Feel free to post progress and pictures here on the blog, or chat about your projects in the thread over on the Ravelry group!

Want to share your thoughts on the movies/tv/science geekery we’ve discussed, or found something geeky to share? Comment here at the blog, email us at knit1geek2@gmail.com or participate in the thread on our Ravelry group! Want to know when new episodes go live or see the occasional bit of news? Check out our Twitter feed (@knit1geek2)! And as always, we have merch in our Zazzle.com and Zazzle.ca stores.

This week, someone forgot to check and make sure that the audio was coming from the real microphone, not her laptop’s built-in mic. *facepalm* Sorry about the audio quality, guys!

In the meantime, we’ve made some progress on our Hobbitalong projects–though some more than others–and haven’t quite gone into panic mode yet. There are also a couple digressions about certain epically historically nerdy TV we plan to use to keep charging along. And there’s a couple other projects we’ve been using to keep our sanity.

Of course we have a rundown of some of the greatest, geekiest Halloween costumes we saw on the internet and commentary about the huge buyout that happened between Disney and Lucasfilm. There’s a new airline safety briefing that you’ll want to pay attention to if you’re a Tolkien fan, as well as a maybe, kinda, very speculative cameo by a huge Tolkien geek for a later Hobbit movie, and a small indie movie that was able to use the geekiest. location. ever. for filming. And if our American listeners aren’t entirely sick of campaign ads, we have a funny parody one for you, starring one of geekdom’s heroes.

Finally we have a Hobbit themed yarn/fibre club to tempt you (along with some other geek-inspired rovings and yarn!) and a couple delicious yarns as well as a non-knitting gift idea from a repeat offender–er, previously lusted-after dyer.

The Hobbit: A Long-Expected Knitalong has begun! There’s no required pattern or yarn, just the goal of completing a project of your choice before The Hobbit opens in theatres on December 14th. Feel free to post progress and pictures here on the blog, or chat about your projects in the thread over on the Ravelry group!

Want to share your thoughts on the movies/tv/science geekery we’ve discussed, or found something geeky to share? Comment here at the blog, email us at knit1geek2@gmail.com or participate in the thread on our Ravelry group! Want to know when new episodes go live or see the occasional bit of news? Check out our Twitter feed (@knit1geek2)! And as always, we have merch in our Zazzle.com and Zazzle.ca stores.

This week, Karen and Maggie are joined again by Newbie Lauren, who’s been having some trials and tribulations with her knitting. Maggie, meanwhile has been making progress on her Hobbitalong project, while Karen’s is…progressing. Slowly. Oh, and we got to name a new Blue Moon Fiber Arts colourway.

Of course there’s a certain item of news that came out the day after we last recorded that has Karen shrieking (literally, at the time) so we have to cover that as well as a recent trailer that causes some squealing and speculation. There’s also news of an epic movie clash coming in 2015, some epic breakfasts to fortify you for any unexpected journeys you may be going on, and probably the coolest airport artwork ever.

We’re also dying to get our hands on the Hobbit-themed Moleskine notebooks, a new comic starring toddler versions of some of our favourite superheroes, and we feature a couple new books, one of nerdy haiku and one of knitted holiday plushies.

The Hobbit: A Long-Expected Knitalong has begun! There’s no required pattern or yarn, just the goal of completing a project of your choice before The Hobbit opens in theatres on December 14th. Feel free to post progress and pictures here on the blog, or chat about your projects in the thread over on the Ravelry group!

Want to share your thoughts on the movies/tv/science geekery we’ve discussed, or found something geeky to share? Comment here at the blog, email us at knit1geek2@gmail.com or participate in the thread on our Ravelry group! Want to know when new episodes go live or see the occasional bit of news? Check out our Twitter feed (@knit1geek2)! And as always, we have merch in our Zazzle.com and Zazzle.ca stores.

This week, Maggie’s back with an update about her trip, some yarn she scouted in the wild, and what she’s been working on. Karen’s also made a little jaunt to somewhere closer to home, as well as some trials and tribulations when it comes to her Hobbitalong project and yet another project to start.

In Geek Squee, there are scientists working on an experiment to see if we’re actually living in the Matrix, an experimental energy source for possible space exploration that may sound somewhat familiar, and an answer to the “where the hell is my holodeck already” question. There’s also a source of higher education that any monsters listening to our podcast may want to check out, as well as a new drinking game for any listeners already in university (or who want to revisit those irresponsible days). Oh, and some evidence that nerds are older than you may think.

In Cravings, Covets and Crushes, we have a review copy of a book we mentioned waaaaaay back by the Ladies of Mischief that has some seriously cool knitting patterns for the steampunkers among us and which is finally being published by Cooperative Press. There’s also some Hobbit merch from the people who made the props from the movies (askljalksld WANT), as well as a knitter’s calendar that’s also a fundraiser for breast cancer research.

The Hobbit: A Long-Expected Knitalong has begun! There’s no required pattern or yarn, just the goal of completing a project of your choice before The Hobbit opens in theatres on December 14th. Feel free to post progress and pictures here on the blog, or chat about your projects in the thread over on the Ravelry group!

Want to share your thoughts on the movies/tv/science geekery we’ve discussed, or found something geeky to share? Comment here at the blog, email us at knit1geek2@gmail.com or participate in the thread on our Ravelry group! Want to know when new episodes go live or see the occasional bit of news? Check out our Twitter feed (@knit1geek2)! And as always, we have merch in our Zazzle.com and Zazzle.ca stores.

This week, Karen’s joined by Newbie Lauren, who has a finished project (yay!) and some frustrating knitting tales (not so yay). Karen, meanwhile, has made progress on a couple projects, including her Hobbitalong slice of crazy pie as well as yet another project to add to the list.

In geeky news, there are actual characters for the S.H.I.E.L.D. TV show which only makes us want it RIGHT NOW while Marvel is teaming up with the Susan G. Komen Foundation to raise awareness of breast cancer and has designed some special covers to that end. Also, you might have a name to curse at for any winter storms that hit this year, thanks to the Weather Channel, the release of the song for the upcoming Bond movie, and a community project that hits everyone right in their inner nine-year-old thanks to a grant from a group called–and I am so not making this up–the Awesome Foundation.

Oh, and in case you need to get in shape in the geekiest way possible, we have the geeky, exercise version of a drinking game for Dr. Who and Harry Potter. If that wasn’t enough, we’ve also found an etsy site offering some nerdy sniffies. Ever wanted to smell like Butterbeer, the TARDIS or…bacon? And when those make you hungry, tuck into the most adorable/delicious Avengers Tea Party ever.

The Hobbit: A Long-Expected Knitalong has begun! There’s no required pattern or yarn, just the goal of completing a project of your choice before The Hobbit opens in theatres on December 14th. Feel free to post progress and pictures here on the blog, or chat about your projects in the thread over on the Ravelry group! Want to share your thoughts on the movies/tv/science geekery we’ve discussed, or found something geeky to share?

Comment here at the blog, email us at knit1geek2@gmail.com or participate in the thread on our Ravelry group! Want to know when new episodes go live or see the occasional bit of news? Check out our Twitter feed (@knit1geek2)! And as always, we have merch in our Zazzle.com and Zazzle.ca stores.

This week there is actual progress on the Hobbit-along projects (if, in Karen’s case, you call getting the yarn in the mail progress), and Maggie has made some serious progress on the 1×1 ribbing of doom! (It’s now 2×2 ribbing of doom.) Karen, meanwhile, doesn’t have much progress to report on otherwise. Boo.

It was Hobbit Day recently, and we have some Hobbity news, including a London celebration with Andy Serkis reading part of the Hobbit as Gollum. There’s also a very geeky parody of a certain K-Pop song and a webseries you may want to check out, as well as an update on certain awards that BBC’s Sherlock was nominated for (and a possible future role for one of the stars of the series. There’s also been some sad news from the Thor 2 set (feel better, Jaimie Alexander!), and some author’s released a book…I think the name was Rowling?

Finally we have a new online knitting magazine, some gorgeously nerdy pottery and some movie reproductions that we are dying to have in our hot little hands.

The Hobbit: A Long-Expected Knitalong has begun! There’s no required pattern or yarn, just the goal of completing a project of your choice before The Hobbit opens in theatres on December 14th. Feel free to post progress and pictures here on the blog, or chat about your projects in the thread over on the Ravelry group!

Want to share your thoughts on the movies/tv/science geekery we’ve discussed, or found something geeky to share? Comment here at the blog, email us at knit1geek2@gmail.com or participate in the thread on our Ravelry group! Want to know when new episodes go live or see the occasional bit of news? Check out our Twitter feed (@knit1geek2)! And as always, we have merch in our Zazzle.com and Zazzle.ca stores.

This week Karen’s slogging along at a couple old projects, while Maggie has started some new ones. Also, the Hobbit-along has begun! Well, at least Maggie’s started; Karen’s still waiting for yarn.

There’s also a new Hobbit trailer, a certain crime drama looking for a lookalike for a certain Captain Tightpants and some new projects from the brains behind the BSG reboot. In spacey news, while one step forward in space exploration made the last leg of its journey to its final home, another is trundling across the surface of Mars to do some hardcore science. And it may not be alone there for as long as we thought, as some scientists are experimenting with warp drive, so who knows when we might make that next leap forward into the solar system?

Back here on Earth, though, we’ve got a new issue of Knitty (and their 10th anniversary one at that–congratulations!) to keep us busy in the meantime, along with an awesome sweater, some adorable monsters and a mathematically geeky shawl.

Oh, and another prizewinner in our first anniversary contest, so stick around until the end of the episode!

The Hobbit: A Long-Expected Knitalong has begun! There’s no required pattern or yarn, just the goal of completing a project of your choice before The Hobbit opens in theatres on December 14th. Feel free to post progress and pictures here on the blog, or chat about your projects in the thread over on the Ravelry group!

Want to share your thoughts on the movies/tv/science geekery we’ve discussed, or found something geeky to share? Comment here at the blog, email us at knit1geek2@gmail.com or participate in the thread on our Ravelry group! Want to know when new episodes go live or see the occasional bit of news? Check out our Twitter feed (@knit1geek2)! And as always, we have merch in our Zazzle.com and Zazzle.ca stores.

This week, we have a newbie! Lauren joins us at K1G2 World Headquarters and gets a first-person view of the crazy that goes on when we record. We also have a couple finished projects and a report on our trip to the Kitchener-Waterloo Knitters’ Fair! Newbie is still recovering from the yarn overload.

In Geek Squee, there’s more news about the upcoming SHIELD tv show (WAAAAANT) as well as some news that hopefully means more people will get to see Joss’ Much Ado About Nothing. There’s also some late-breaking Dragon-Con news, there was a wedding that reenacted a certain same-sex superhero wedding, and Maggie got a little gift from someone who was able to go; some awesomely nerdy librarian tattoos (no, Karen is definitely not getting one of these); a trailer for a movie that looks like it will be an endless source of lols; an instant way to win Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, as long as no one can see your computer screen and some possible hints about how the Hobbit movies might be split up (no spoilers, we just tell you how to find it).

There’s a lot of Cravings, Covets and Crushes this week, including some truly heroic soap, some lickable planets (and dwarf planet, sorry Pluto), some geeky yarns from one of our listeners, a super cool piece of timekeeping jewelry, and possibly the best game of Clue EVER.

And of course we have a little prize to draw for this week…

The Hobbit: A Long Expected Knitalong has begun! There’s no required pattern or yarn, just the goal of completing a project of your choice before The Hobbit opens in theatres on December 14th. Feel free to post progress and pictures here on the blog, or chat about your projects in the thread over on the Ravelry group!

Want to share your thoughts on the movies/tv we’ve discussed, or found something geeky to share? Comment here at the blog, email us at knit1geek2@gmail.com or participate in the thread on our Ravelry group! Want to know when new episodes go live or see the occasional bit of news? Check out our Twitter feed (@knit1geek2)! And as always, we have merch in our Zazzle.com and Zazzle.ca stores.

This week it’s a blue moon and so Maggie’s a bit more loopy than usual, not that anyone would really notice. It’s not enough to keep us from progress on projects, some yarn acquisition and some Hobbitalong preparation (starting mid-month! Time to narrow down your projects and source yarn!)

In Geek Squee we have yes more Marvel Cinematic Universe news including: news on Joss Whedon’s return to TV, this time with an Avengers-y bent (EEEEE); more casting/characters for Thor 2; and discussion of the sneaky release of the AVENGERS GAG REEL OMG. We also have the most recent thing to make the Sherlock fandom explode, the passing of a man who made one giant leap for mankind (WE <3 YOU, NEIL), some early discussion of Dragon*Con, some news from FanExpo on Toronto including a fandom wedding and a possible (good!) change to routine during flights. Oh, and the President of the United States broke Reddit.

For Cravings, Covets, and Crushes we have a fanartist who has some gorgeous stuff. If you miss the button sale, check out her Society 6 shop for some really cool prints and watch her tumblr for a possible button sale return later on!

We’re going to be at the Kitchener-Waterloo Knitter’s Fair on Sept. 8th! We’ll be wearing our logo t-shirts so if you see us come up and say hello–we’ll have stickers for the first 10 people that spot us!

You can still enter our anniversary contest! Comment at the blog or in the Ravelry thread for Episode 50 with something geeky you’ve discovered in the last year, then do the same thing in Episode 51 with with something knitty that you’ve discovered this year. That’s right, you have two chances to win a prize! You have until Sept. 14th to enter for Episode 50, and until Sept. 21 to enter for Episode 51.

Want to share your thoughts on the movies/tv we’ve discussed, or found something geeky to share? Comment here at the blog, email us at knit1geek2@gmail.com or participate in the thread on our Ravelry group! Want to know when new episodes go live or see the occasional bit of news? Check out our Twitter feed (@knit1geek2)! And as always, we have merch in our Zazzle.com and Zazzle.ca stores.

This week Karen’s fighting off a cold as she writes this up, so it’s going to be short and sweet.

There’s new projects (Maggie)! And not-so-new projects (Karen)! And a mini-movie review!

In Geek Squee, there’s a release date for the next Harry Dresden book! And a study saying Gen Y is taking over book buying! And no more sales of spells, prayers, potions, etc. on eBay! And dinosaurs in Australia! And an adorable story for the cat lovers! And tangents about smut, a knitting webcomic we love and knitting Avengers, as this is us we’re talking about.

We’re doing another contest this week! Comment at the blog or in this episode’s thread in our Ravelry group before Sept. 21st with something knitty that you’ve discovered this year for the chance to win a prize.

Want to share your thoughts on the movies/tv we’ve discussed, or found something geeky to share? Comment here at the blog, email us at knit1geek2@gmail.com or participate in the thread on our Ravelry group! Want to know when new episodes go live or see the occasional bit of news? Check out our Twitter feed (@knit1geek2)! And as always, we have merch in our Zazzle.com and Zazzle.ca stores.

This week it’s our 50th EPISODE, WOO! Maggie’s still slogging along on the k1p1 strip of doom as well as encouraging a newbie, while Karen has achieved Ravellenic gold.

The achievement doesn’t end there, though, as Curiosity made a successful landing on Mars! Which has rightly given a lot of notoriety to a couple JPL staff members, in the geekiest way possible. (Hint: it involves Tumblr.) We also have news on virtual helpers you might see in your local airport some time soon and some goodies for Dr. Who fans. Especially for knitting Dr. Who fans, as we’ve found some seriously awesome needle gauges and WPI tools from one particular shop. We also have squeals over the new fall Twist Collective!

Finally, we have squealing over some knitty/nerdy goodies that listeners have sent us. THANK YOU GUYS!

We have a contest! Comment on this episode either here at the blog or at our Ravelry group and tell us about something geeky you’ve discovered in the last year before Sept. 14th for the chance to win a prize!

Want to share your thoughts on the movies/tv we’ve discussed, or found something geeky to share? Comment here at the blog, email us at knit1geek2@gmail.com or participate in the thread on our Ravelry group! Want to know when new episodes go live or see the occasional bit of news? Check out our Twitter feed! And as always, we have merch in our Zazzle.com and Zazzle.ca stores.

We’re back! This week the Ravellenic Games are in full swing, though sadly one of us didn’t make it past the qualifier. That just means there’s more projects to talk about, though!

There’s also a lot of geek squee, especially about the latest Mars Rover landing as well as a real-world version of a certain robot that hits Karen’s squeal button pretty hard. There’s also a kickstarter campaign for a documentary that might appeal to the space nerds amongst us, as well as some Avengers movie casting news. Also, apparently a billionaire has been toying with the idea fo cloning dinosaurs. We all know how this movie ends.

Finally there’s some gorgeous yarn and fibre to share, as well as an upcoming figure of a certain SHIELD agent that’s making Karen squeal. Not that that’s difficult to do.

Want to share your thoughts on the movies/tv we’ve discussed, or found something geeky to share? Comment here at the blog, email us at knit1geek2@gmail.com or participate in the thread on our Ravelry group! Want to know when new episodes go live or see the occasional bit of news? Check out our Twitter feed! And as always, we have merch in our Zazzle.com and Zazzle.ca stores.

This week in knitting, we’re gearing up for the Ravellenic Games! Some of us are clearing the boards of projects and some of us…not so much. We also fill you in on what we’re planning to start during the Opening Ceremonies of the Games-Which-Must-Not-Be-Named.

Meanwhile in Geek….Not so Squee, we have a brief mention of the unavoidable topic this week in geekdom, namely the shooting tragedy in Colorado. Our hearts definitely go out to the victims and their families. By the time you hear this, we’re pretty sure everyone’s going to need some brighter news, though, so we also fill you in on some more news from San Diego Comic-Con and the Emmy nominations that were announced earlier this week.

Finally, we have a home accessory that I’m sure a lot of knitters are going to want on their wall, not just because it will provide you with knitwear.

Want to join our Ravellenic Games team? Want to share your thoughts on the movies/tv we’ve discussed, or found something geeky to share? Comment here at the blog, email us at knit1geek2@gmail.com or participate in the thread on our Ravelry group! Want to know when new episodes go live or see the occasional bit of news? Check out our Twitter feed! And as always, we have merch in our Zazzle.com and Zazzle.ca stores.

This week…seriously, guys, we should have known. If we sound like we’re recording in a cavern, it’s because I forgot to check what mic we were recording with, and it was recorded with my laptop’s internal mic. Dammit.

Anyway, this week Maggie’s finishing projects and giving them away, which we probably should have expected, and she’s started another pattern for herself this time. Karen’s working feverishly on the super secret project (spoiler alert: the knitting gods were not helpful in this regard) and has been changing her mind on one project. Like this is a surprise.

Naturally there’s lots of Comic-Con news about Firefly (EEE TELEVISED SPECIAL!), a new Sandman project from Neil Gaiman, and of course, another epic Twilight panel lineup. Also, Adam Savage of Mythbusters has let another epic costume for the con. The awesome even started pre-con with an amazingly geeky relay race ending in San Diego!

Outside the con, the US military is taking some inspiration from a certain Princess Warrior, while the UK military is releasing even more documents about their evaluation of alien threats. Of course they don’t monitor alien sightings any more…or DO THEY? And if the zombies arrive before the aliens, we have a list of places where you might want to hole up.

And while you’ve barricaded yourself inside, we have some adorable amigurumi you can do to pass the time.

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This week, we completely forget that we’re recording one year to the day that we recorded our first episode. Whoops. We blame it on the heat.

But despite the heat, we have some progress on knitted things! Karen’s mostly been working on a Top Secret project, casting things on and planning a D&D campaign for kids at her library, but Maggie has some actual progress on her projects, even finishing her Vodka Lemonade cardigan, yay!

Meanwhile in the world of geekery, the biggest news this week had to be the discovery of what looks like a Higgs-Boson Particle by CERN (you know, those guys that were going to create a black hole and kill us all), and in an amusing side note, Stephen Hawking lost a bet thanks to them. There’s also a recent discovery that adds more to our knowledge of dinosaurs (and makes Jurassic Park more inaccurate, 13-year-old-me doesn’t care), a great video promoting Hufflepuff pride oh and a little discussion of some little event going on in San Diego soon.

Finally, Karen finally spills about the Mean Girls Yarn Club that she’s been receiving for the last year and which is now up for new signups. Just remember not to mistake the solid perfume for lip balm like Karen did.

The Ravellenic Games is approaching! Join the team and talk about what you’re planning to knit at our Ravelry group. Going to SDCC? Want to share your thoughts about the stuff we’ve talked about on the podcast? Comment at the Ravelry group for that too, or email us at knit1geek2@gmail.com, send a message to @knit1geek2 on Twitter, or leave us a comment here at the blog! And as always, we have merch in our Zazzle.com and Zazzle.ca stores.

This week…it’s Canada Day! Woo! And we get the “eh”s out of our systems very quickly, we promise. Meanwhile, Maggie’s still plugging away at her Vodka Lemonade cardigan thanks to the Yarn Trickster Gods as well as working on a couple other things. Karen…is still working on the same things, and trying to resist the urge to cast on more. So, you know, business as usual.

In Geek Squee, we have some news on the way Avengers has completely screwed the major studios’ plans for this summer, some news on another upcoming fairy tale movie where the Mean Girl is the star, and the gift of some extra time for all of us. Oh, and could someone bring us a fire extinguisher? Because there’s a fashion house co-opting a certain geeky subculture that has our panties on fire.

We’re also squealing over a certain superhero-ey mod of a puppet pattern that one of our listeners found, as well as some atypical tutus for the little ones in your life.

We’re one year old! We never would have made it this far if it wasn’t for our listeners, so THANK YOU GUYS! :D:D:D There will be special things coming up this month for our anniversary; stay tuned for details.

Want to join our Ravel-whatever Games team? Want to share your thoughts on the movies/tv we’ve discussed, or found something geeky to share? Comment here at the blog, email us at knit1geek2@gmail.com or participate in the thread on our Ravelry group! Want to know when new episodes go live or see the occasional bit of news? Check out our Twitter feed! And as always, we have merch in our Zazzle.com and Zazzle.ca stores.

SPOILER WARNING! We discuss spoilers from the movie “Brave” from 32:52 to 48:10.

This week, Karen is plugging away on her twisted stitch socks and has made a few yarny purchases while Maggie is nearing the finish line on her Vodka Lemonade cardigan and has finished one of her Catnip socks.

With everything that’s been going on this week, we get our ranty panties on about the Ravelympics-USOC fracas and then we’re off and squealing about Pixar’s “Brave”, which we have been eagerly anticipating for months now. Finally, we have another source for geeky yarn, and there’s a new issue of Knitty out for us to drool over.

Want to join our Ravel-whatever Games team? Want to share your thoughts on the movies/tv we’ve discussed, or found something geeky to share? Comment here at the blog, email us at knit1geek2@gmail.com or participate in the thread on our Ravelry group! Want to know when new episodes go live or see the occasional bit of news? Check out our Twitter feed! And as always, we have merch in our Zazzle.com and Zazzle.ca stores.

SPOILER WARNING! We discuss spoilers for “Snow White and the Huntsman” from 34:30 to 55:23.

It’s been a crazy couple weeks, but despite that we have progress on our knitting! Karen actually has finished projects for once, and naturally she’s cast on a couple new things. Meanwhile Maggie’s had some progress on her Vodka Lemonade cardigan, and has acquired some new pretties.

We’ve also got some movie news, including a possible, rumoured excuse for Karen to go see Avengers again and an update on a certain reboot of a certain band of adolescent turtles trained in the deadly arts. We also have a new incentive to encourage people to update their browsers from an Australian company. And of course, we went to see “Snow White and the Huntsman” and we have lots of thoughts about the movie, and not always the same thoughts!

Finally, we have something to chase away the blues and give you some geeky cute to brighten gloomy days.

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SPOILER ALERT! We discuss spoilers for Sherlock 2×03, “The Reichenbach Fall” between 27:19 and 1:01:04. No non-spoilery comments this time, for obvious reasons.

This week Maggie has quite a bit of progress on her socks and sweater in between exposing a newbie knitter to all things fibery and working her way to becoming a ninja. Karen, meanwhile, has been working on…the same things she has been the last few weeks, and while she has progress, it’s not much to talk about in brief. She has acquired some mini-skeins of a particularly nerdy nature, however.

In Geek Squee, there’s casting news about one of the many upcoming Avengers movies, a trailer for a movie that has Karen losing her mind (and featuring some veeeeery attractive talent) and some amazingly cool threads for a sporting event later this summer. No, not that one. The one involving brooms and a golden snitch. Yes, really. And then of course there’s a great deal of squealing, sobbing and wailing about the season finale for Sherlock Series 2. YOU ARE NOT PREPARED.

In Cravings, Covets and Crushes we have yet another source for geek-inspired yarns in every base you could ever want, as well as a new online magazine, featuring patterns for our yarny weakness: sock yarn.

Want to share your thoughts on the movies/tv we’ve discussed, or found something geeky to share? Comment here at the blog, email us at knit1geek2@gmail.com or participate in the thread on our Ravelry group! Want to know when new episodes go live or see the occasional bit of news? Check out our Twitter feed! And as always, we have merch in our Zazzle.com and Zazzle.ca stores.

This week there’s some progress on Maggie’s part, and she will have pictures soon, she swears. Just once she resists the urge to kill podcast kitty for getting into her current sock project. Meanwhile Karen’s been travelling and has lots of pretty yarn and a little knitting to show for it.

In Geek Squee, we’ve found some cocktails for the superheroes amongst us as well as some news about casting for upcoming Marvel movies. We have an update on an awesome Kickstarter campaign and our own ideas of how one of the doctors should have carried the Olympic torch. There’s also a preview for CBS’ “Elementary” and some speculation on what will it will actually be like. Then it’s into discussion of “The Hounds of Baskerville”.

Finally, we’re drooling over some Avengers yarn from two different dyers as well as Hunger Games-inspired socks, and tempted by some fandom-inspired teas.

Want to share your thoughts on the movies/tv we’ve discussed, or found something geeky to share? Comment here at the blog, email us at knit1geek2@gmail.com or participate in the thread on our Ravelry group! Want to know when new episodes go live or see the occasional bit of news? Check out our Twitter feed! And as always, we have merch in our Zazzle.com and Zazzle.ca stores.

SPOILER WARNING! We discuss spoilers for Sherlock 2×01 “A Scandal in Belgravia” between 38:30 and 1:01:00.

This week, there’s been some knitting progress for both of the co-hosts. Maggie’s made progress on one project that’s going pretty well but has a long way to go, but the other is in ribbing purgatory. However, she’s also been taking some time to convert someone else to the dark side. Meanwhile, Karen’s been forgetting her knitting for most of this week, which is all right considering she’ll have time to make up for some of the forgotten knitting when she heads down to Kentucky later this week.

In Geek Squee, there’s a little bit about Avengers kicking more ass, this time at the box office, a project to turn your glasses into your next smartphone and something we probably should have figured out about the Easter Island statues. We also watched the first episode of Season 2 of Sherlock this week and we have lots of thoughts on the episode. *Lots* of thoughts.

Finally, we have a review of a book for bigger knitters which includes a whole heck of a lot of patterns that Karen is dying to knit.

Going to the Kentucky Sheep and Fiber Festival in Lexington, KY on May 19th? Keep an eye out for Karen! She’ll be undoing all the progress she’s been making on the stashdown (though she’s travelling with non-knitters, so who knows how long she’ll be there). Just look for the woman with a Knit 1 Geek 2 shirt on, and get a sticker for your troubles.

Want to share your thoughts on the movies/tv we’ve discussed, or found something geeky to share? Comment here at the blog, email us at knit1geek2@gmail.com or participate in the thread on our Ravelry group! Want to know when new episodes go live or see the occasional bit of news? Check out our Twitter feed! And as always, we have merch in our Zazzle.com and Zazzle.ca stores.

SPOILER WARNING: our Avengers spoilers start at 29:56 and go until 1:01. (There’s a little discussion tangentially related to the Avengers after that point, but nothing spoilery.)

In this Hulk-sized episode, Karen and Maggie squeal about the Avengers. A lot.

But first there’s some knitting going on, and some finished projects from Karen, one of which you might have to go back quite a few episodes to find discussion for. Meanwhile, Maggie’s breaking her usual project monagamy for something a little more challenging. Or will be, once she figures out what it is.

In Geek Squee, there’s a couple notes for the Benedict Cumberbatch and Sherlock fans! There’s some news on Cumberbatch’s role in the Star Trek movie, as well as a recent Q&A for Sherlock fans in New York to kick off Series 2 finally debuting in the United States.

And then there’s our Avengers report. This is what happens when we see a highly-anticipated movie together, people! There’s our non-spoilery impressions first, then we get into spoilerville and trust me, you really don’t want to know spoilers before seeing this movie!

Be sure to stick around after the Avengers stuff, though, as we have a prize to draw for those who participated in the Stashdown contest! Missed out on the contest but trying to curb your spending/use more of your stash? The thread is still open and there are quite a few people still trying to be good about their yarn consumption!

Just a reminder for anyone in the Kenticky area, Karen’s going to be at the Kentucky Sheep and Fiber Festival on May 19! She’ll be travelling with muggles, so she’s not sure how long she’ll be there, but if you’re going, be sure to look for her; the first 10 listeners to find her will get a sticker.

Need to do some flailing about Avengers, or have another comment? Leave a message here at the blog (no, spammers, you don’t qualify), email us at knit1geek2@gmail.com or participate in the thread on our Ravelry group! Want to know when new episodes go live or see the occasional bit of news? Check out our Twitter feed! And as always, we have merch in our Zazzle.com and Zazzle.ca stores.

This week, Karen’s got a mostly-finished project and the same socks she’s been working on for ages. Oh, and another project waiting in the wings. Maggie’s got a bunch of new yarn as somebody got to go to the Knitter’s Frolic in Toronto last weekend. She’s even started a new project, and she’s got a little notebook with some grand ideas. And pictures of a certain knitting blogger/cartoonist/teacher/more in a utilikilt (no, not *those* kinds of pictures).

But it’s not just all Frolic this week! Karen has a movie review for “The Pirates! Band of Misfits” while Maggie’s found some eye makeup perfect for the Avengers opening this weekend. There’s news about another Neil Gaiman book that’s getting the stop-motion animation treatment, an awesome Take Your Kids to Work Day that involved a mock trial in the Hunger Games universe, and an epic university prank for the Doctor Who fans. We’ve also found another purveyor of geeky yarns, and a new online knitting comic strip that we both love to bits.

Only a couple days left to get your name in the draw for the stashdown! Comment here at the blog (no, spammers, you don’t qualify), email us at knit1geek2@gmail.com or participate in the thread on our Ravelry group by MAY 3RD! The lucky winner will get their pick of Glenna C’s self-published patterns, courtesy of Ms. Glenna herself. Thanks, Glenna!

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This week, Maggie is almost but not quite done her one project and is looking forward to the Knitter’s Frolic in Toronto. Meanwhile Karen is pouting that she won’t be going and has been bingeing on Titanic documentaries and knitting up a storm. We have news on the latest voyage of the Space Shuttle Discovery (not as far as it’s previous one!), a new development in tech and tombstones as well as in teleportation, and a certain other sci-fi gadget that may not be TV magic for much longer. And finally, a new issue of Twist Collective came out this week and we have a rundown of our favourite patterns.

Maggie is going to be at the Knitter’s Frolic in Toronto on Saturday, April 28th. She’ll have a few stickers to give to the first few people that find her, so be sure to say hello and share what you’re working on!

And finally, we have a box of surprises from a listener that landed on Maggie’s doorstep. THANK YOU!

The contest part of the stashdown is almost over! Want to have your name in the drawing? Comment here at the blog (no, spammers, you don’t qualify), email us at knit1geek2@gmail.com or participate in the thread on our Ravelry group! Want to know when new episodes go live or see the occasional bit of news? Check out our Twitter feed! And as always, we have merch in our Zazzle.com and Zazzle.ca stores.

This week Maggie’s soldiering away on the Watson socks and dreaming about all the other things she could work on when she’s finished. Meanwhile Karen’s working on a bunch of projects, as usual, and is rewriting the rules of her stashdown.

Of course with three weeks to go before the Avengers invade movie theatres, there’s some Avengers news including another released scene, hints about a scene that was only just filmed and some seriously epic casting for the next IronMan movie.

But Geek Squee doesn’t end there! There’s an innovative photography idea for this time of year, a possibility of life on mars (no, not the British TV show) and a handy map for all your zombiepocalypse needs. Not to mention OMG SYNOPSIS FOR THE NEW BOOK FROM J.K. ROWLING!!!

Finally for Cravings, Covets and Crushes, we have some very Downton Abbey yarns and patterns for all those recent converts (and longer fans) amongst our listeners.

And then things descended into mashing up Downton Abbey and zombies (mostly off the air, don’t worry). Only the classiest of podcast content, that’s us.

The Watson-along and Stashdown are still going! Want to share what you’re doing to decrease you stash and get your name in the drawing for the stashdown? Comment here at the blog (no, spammers, you don’t qualify), email us at knit1geek2@gmail.com or participate in the thread on our Ravelry group! Want to know when new episodes go live or see the occasional bit of news? Check out our Twitter feed! And as always, we have merch in our Zazzle.com and Zazzle.ca stores.

This week, Karen and Maggie both have some finished projects (or, well, sort of finished; slippers that are mid-felting and a baby blanket with the ends not woven in still count, right?) and some older projects that have come back around (or are about to).

There’s also some movie news, what with Karen having seen a recent 3d re-release, footage from an upcoming superhero movie as well as new about more movies in the series, and an international trailer for another movie we’re looking forward to that gives a lot more information about the story. There’s news of a steampunk pageant, some geek appearances on a geeky show and some …interesting merchandising for one of the movies we’ve mentioned in other episodes.

Finally, Think Geek continues to reign over our wallets when it comes to stuff that is just plain damn cool, and there’s a pattern that could fit a rather steampunky outfit.

The Watson-along and Stashdown are still going! Want to share what you’re doing to decrease you stash and get your name in the drawing for the stashdown? Comment here at the blog (no, spammers, you don’t qualify), email us at knit1geek2@gmail.com or participate in the thread on our Ravelry group! Want to know when new episodes go live or see the occasional bit of news? Check out our Twitter feed! And as always, we have merch in our Zazzle.com and Zazzle.ca stores.

This week Maggie’s finished a sock, whatever she tries to say, while Karen’s started yet another sock. This one is only for certain occasions though, which makes it perfectly all right, right?

We’re off to the movies! We checked out the first of the Snow White adaptations coming out this year, “Mirror, Mirror”. The results were…mixed. The geek squee doesn’t stop there, though. Along with the movie we saw a lot of trailers for movies we’re looking forward to, and we have news about a project to create your own tricorder. Of course we have to report on some of the geeky April Fools’ goings-on, including a pattern for seriously discerning knitters, aka our listeners.

SPOILER WARNING! After giving our general, non-spoilery feeling about “Mirror, Mirror”, we get into more spoilery ones at about 20:15. Spoilers stop at 34:08.

The Watson-along and Stashdown are still going! Want to share what you’re doing to decrease you stash and get your name in the drawing for the stashdown? Comment here at the blog (no, spammers, you don’t qualify), email us at knit1geek2@gmail.com or participate in the thread on our Ravelry group! Want to know when new episodes go live or see the occasional bit of news? Check out our Twitter feed! And as always, we have merch in our Zazzle.com and Zazzle.ca stores.

This week things were not going well, so there’s not a huge amount of knitting progress, though Maggie finished one sock in a pair, so that’s something. Meanwhile, Karen is squeeing over getting to go to one fiber festival and wailing about not going to another.

Luckily there’s geek squee to save the day with. The Hunger Games is kicking some box office ass, and the amazing teenagers don’t stop there as we also have a story about some teens making a Viper flight simulator. There’s news of a huge geek guest star on an upcoming episode of Big Bang Theory, the world’s most awesome playroom, and a coming documentary about comic-con that looks like it’s going to rock. Oh, and Maggie has a topical new toy. There’s also a kickstarter for a novel series that we’re crushing on (psychic dinosaurs! Jet packs! 1930s!) as well as a couple thank yous for some of our listeners and a blog post with a LOT of great knitting podcasts for you to check out.

Want to share what you’re doing to decrease you stash and get your name in the drawing for the stashdown? Comment here at the blog (no, spammers, you don’t qualify), email us at knit1geek2@gmail.com or participate in the thread on our Ravelry group! Want to know when new episodes go live or see the occasional bit of news? Check out our Twitter feed! And as always, we have merch in our Zazzle.com and Zazzle.ca stores.

This week, we have alcohol. No, for real this time. It’s been a long week, and Karen’s got little progress on her projects and a mojito, while Maggie has achieved quite a bit more and started a new project. Oh, and she’s got a London Fog or two under her belt.

However, there’s lots of geek news including some geeky art of the knitted and digital variety and an article about science coming to the rescue of cashmere-producing goats. On the movie front there’s a trailer for a movie that we only have to wait two months for this time and some behind the scenes featurettes for one of the two Snow White adaptations we’re looking forward to, as well as another modern classic getting the 3D treatment. Oh, and geek god Nathan Fillion has some interesting casting news (squee!).

As for Cravings, Covets and Crushes, there are two books, including one filled with patterns for nerdy types, and a picture book to warm any knitter’s heart. There are also a couple patterns that to feature, including one that just blew our freaking minds, and a KAL and a referral to a coupon code if you want to get your Lord of the Rings on.

Got any suggestions for video podcasts? Want to share what you’re doing to decrease you stash and get your name in the drawing for the stashdown? Comment here at the blog (no, spammers, you don’t qualify), email us at knit1geek2@gmail.com or participate in the thread on our Ravelry group! Want to know when new episodes go live or see the occasional bit of news? Check out our Twitter feed! And as always, we have merch in our Zazzle.com and Zazzle.ca stores.

Hey everyone! Just updating to let you know that there won’e be a podcast this week. It’s March Break up here, and the library is getting crazier by the day, so editing would so not be happening this week. I didn’t realize this until after we recorded the last episode, though, so sorry there was no advance notice.

We’ll record this weekend and hope to have a new episode out next week. See you then!

This week we have old projects finished (Maggie`s sweater!) and nearly finished, and new projects started(another Maggie sweater!). There`s also a thread for the Stashdown-along, so head on over and let us know your rules/goals for using/getting rid of some of your stash. (And if you’re not getting rid of stash, this would be a good place to watch for people getting rid of theirs!)

Over in geek squee there’s a lot of pre-production and behind the scenes news including Lady!Watson, some glimpses of The Hobbit and some costuming that has to be seen to be believed. There’s a new Avengers trailer that gives us a little more of an idea of the second plot and character arcs for the movie (yay character development!). There’s also a video that has to be seen to be believed: Human. Mattress. Dominoes. I’ll just let that sink in for a moment.

Finally for Cravings, Covets and Crushes, there’s a couple teapot/french press cozies that will help you “CAFFEINATE…CAFFEINATE,” as well as an artist doing some pocket princesses that we loooooove and a huge new knitting book to give a pre-review on. And I do mean huge in the literal sense.

The Stashdown is on! To get your name in the prize drawing at the end of April, comment here at the blog (no, spammers, you don’t qualify), email us at knit1geek2@gmail.com or participate in the thread on our Ravelry group! Want to know when new episodes go live or see the occasional bit of news? Check out our Twitter feed! And as always, we have merch in our Zazzle.com and Zazzle.ca stores.

This week there’s lots of OMG!! and SQUEE!! but first there’s a finished sweater for Maggie and some socks that are getting close to the finish line for Karen after some ripping. And then it’s time for the three squees: OMG JKR is writing a new book! OMG there’s a clip from “Brave” online! OMG there are promo pics for the next Star Trek movie! And when your eardrums have healed, there’s also an application that uses Google Maps that’s both fascinating and creepy, an amazing T-Rex costume, Lucy Lawless being a Warrior Princess for the earth, and news on the possible love child of the phone and the tablet. Finally there’s more squealing over a good mail week for Maggie, and a book suggestion for those looking to use up some of their stash.

And speaking of using stash, the Stashdown is on! You make your own rules and goals and knit/donate/gift/sell your way to a lighter stash! …Just in time for a lot of fibre festivals, of course. Don’t have much stash? Keep an eye on the Ravelry group for those that are getting rid of theirs! Email us, comment on the blog or at Ravelry and your name will go into a draw for a special something at the end of April. (And yes, Watson-along projects count!)

This week we’re plugging away at projects and trying not to drink heavily after some frustrating days. There’s some news about movies involving Celtic mythology, another based on Karen’s favourite fairytale, and a Joss Whedon movie that’s finally getting released; some seriously epic crafty things inspired by video games and some seriously epic sculptures from recycled CDs. Oh, and a series of 5K runs that will give you some serious incentives to train. Hint: It involves zombies. We’ve also got an upcoming videocast and two projects we love: one for the crack and one for the OMG PRETTY.

Stay tuned for more details on our upcoming Stashdown-along! The Watson-along is still going on as well and feel free to join in! Check and see what others are doing (as well as the usual goofiness) over on the Ravelry thread, chime in there, or email us to let us know how you’re doing! And if you haven’t started anything yet, no worries! There’s no time limit on this one; just join in whenever you can.

This week, we have a couple finshed projects, including Maggie’s Linen Stitch Scarf of Doom! Yaaaaay! We’re Watsoning-along with varying levels of progress and Maggie’s powering along on her sweater, and gained another level in badass. Karen, meanwhile, was increasing her stash with some dyeing and decreasing it by destashing.

There are not one but TWO new trailers and some l33t haxxoring of a knitting machine, some casting news and the answer to an age-old mystery. DC Comics’ New 52 raises its head again, and we take a look at an animation that will blow your freaking mind. There’s also some great geeky videos involving Faraday cages and Shit Knitters Say. Finally we wrap up with a book suggestion for the cooks out there, as well as some gorgeous colourways that are tempting us.

Thanks to everyone that’s left reviews for us on iTunes! We’re very glad that people are enjoying the ‘cast.

The Watson-along is still going strong, and we’re starting a new knit/crochet/whatever-along soon! Check and see what others are doing (as well as the usual goofiness) over on the Ravelry thread, chime in there, or email us to let us know how you’re doing! And if you haven’t started anything yet, no worries! There’s no time limit on this one; just join in whenever you can.

This week there’s loooooove in the air. Well maybe not so much love for one of Maggie’s (never-ending) projects, but other than that. There are Watson socks on the go and a gorgeous sweater started, and other projects are trying to seduce Karen like a playboy billionaire in a romance novel. (“I find it so hard to resist you…but I MUST!”) If you’re still looking for the perfect geeky Valentine cards we’ve got a few options, as well as a few gifts (though those might not arrive in time). There’s also some discussion about the Avenger-that-could-have-been and some discussion about which characters we’d like to have as our Valentine this Feb. 14th. And finally to round out the crushing, we’ve got a pattern collection where we want to make ALL THE THINGS, and some adorable art for Sherlock/Dr. Who/Harry Potter fans.

The Watson-along is on the go, and there are lots of people participating! Check and see what others are doing (as well as the usual goofiness) over on the Ravelry thread, chime in there, or email us to let us know how you’re doing! And if you haven’t started anything yet, no worries! There’s no time limit on this one; just join in whenever you can.

This week we have projects that are ongoing and that are nearing completion. Good thing too, as we’re starting our first knitalong! In geeky stuff, there’s some wtf in the form of changes to the Oscar rules, a SOPA-like bill going through Canadian Parliament, and Voldemort reading fanfic. In the squee, there’s some non-breakage of a major website, a kick-ass teenager who will possibly rule the world someday, and a Certain British Actor reading some naughty, naughty things. We’ve also got a couple places where knitters and crafters can give back.

The Watson-along is up and running! We’re knitting the Elementary Watson Socks and other projects inspired by the cabled sweater John Watson wears in the first series of BBC’s Sherlock. Can’t participate just yet? No worries, you’re welcome to start at any time! Check out our Ravelry group for discussion and updates; if you’re not on Ravelry, email us with your projects and we’ll post them on the blog, if you can’t comment on the blog itself (we’ve been having spammer troubles, so it might be a little problematic).

(And yes, somehow there is a lot of thumping and bumping in this week’s ‘cast. Our bad! We’ll be sure to remember to pad the mic stand next week.)

This week there’s some discussion of both knitting and non-knitting projects, as well as some resisting of temptation as we gear up for our first knitalong! Not surprisingly, there’s lots of news of the Sherlockian variety, though only one small, maybe-sorta-kinda spoilery bit for the new episodes of the BBC series; see below for the timecode to avoid if you’re worried about spoilers (don’t worry, we’re not actually discussing the episodes this week!). After cookies last week, this week there’s some very geeky (and epic) cake, comic book characters in different historical eras (no kilts, sadly), some knitting superheros. Oh, and the internet is still uncensored. More animated .gifs for all!

SPOILERS! Well, small ones for BBC’s Sherlock from 21:30 to about 27:15.

We’re starting a knitalong! We’re knitting the Elementary Watson Socks and other projects inspired by the cabled sweater John Watson wears in the first series of BBC’s Sherlock. We’re kicking it off on January 29th (the anniversary of when Sherlock and John first met) but feel free to join in at any time! Karen has two projects to do for this one so she’s going to be participating in this one for a while. :) See the thread in our Ravelry group for more details.

This week we skip around a little bit as we discuss things we’re working on, things we’ve finished (or, well, that Maggie’s finished), and things that we’re planning. There’s a little more discussion of RDJ’s Holmes (see below for the spoiler times) and some discussion of another Holmes actor that completely derails Karen’s brain. There’s some news for Star Wars fans, an opportunity for D&D fans, some tech news–some that we find awesome and some that we don’t entirely understand but which sounds cool–and some human/women’s rights stuff which is pissing us off. There’s also cookies! Lots of cookies! Not to mention hot guys in period clothing.

SPOILER ALERT! A few more spoilers for “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows” between 28:25 and 43:30.

After holidays and car troubles and computer troubles, we are FINALLY BACK! We have lots of knitting to catch up on as well as some chatter about how our holidays went and a couple of the things Santa brought us. There’s a lot of big geek news to catch up on, what with a trailer for a certain Peter Jackson movie having come out a couple weeks ago, and of course there’s a lot of Sherlock-y news (including some spoilery discussion about the new movie–see below for the time codes if you don’t want to be spoiled!). And finally, there are a couple things to start the new year off with, and provide some inspiration for the months to come. Oh, and we’re not sure if you can hear it, but Karen was running a fever without realizing it when we recorded. So blame any weirdness on that. Really. Because we’re not like this every week. *innocent look*

SPOILER ALERT! Spoilery discussion of Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows starts at 25:35 and ends at 33:05.

This week we’re gearing up for the holidays with some finished (or nearly finished) projects and some pre-holiday yarn sale shopping. There’s some legitimate geeky news including a Christmas tree for knitters and some movie news, but there’s also some letting loose and blathering about the holidays and plans and challenges for the new year. Here be tangents, so don’t say you weren’t warned.

We’re still not sure just when we’ll be recording this week, so we’d like to add that this year has been a big adventure for us both, as we weren’t quite sure what would happen when we started tossing things out into the void. We’ve both been excited and very thankful for the reception we’ve received from our listeners, and hope that this holiday season is a good one for all of you.

This week, Maggie’s started a new project, made some progress on an older one and Karen’s trying not to fall asleep or cough all over the microphone. There’s Sherlocky news (both of the television and film variety), some proof that women like genre movies too, a really interesting concept car, some children’s drawings come to life, and a handy-dandy, very-non-pocket-sized guide to magic in fantasy series. And if your house doesn’t already look enough like the Enterprise, there’s a guide in how to make it so. There’s a new knitting book we are dying to get our hands on, and a trip out into the real world this weekend to perhaps get some more yarn.

We’re going to be going to the Purple Purl’s Pre-Boxing-Day-Boxing-Day Sale this weekend! We’ll be wearing our shirts and I’ll have stickers so say hello if you see us!

This week Maggie has some new projects that she’s knitting for herself, while Karen is still working on the same things as last week. There’s a handy app to answer the age-old question, lots of Whovian news and goodies (and some extended discussion of movies based on TV shows), discussion of wasting time on the internet and the BIGGEST TIME SUCK EVER (and a moderate time suck that Maggie’s become addicted to), some music that everyone really needs to hear to believe and a PSA for anyone planning to see Breaking Dawn. We also discuss some gifty ideas, including a book at the top of Karen’s Christmas list.

This week Maggie has FINISHED HER HOLIDAY KNITTING (!!) and has done some nifty-looking sewing as well. Karen has another project started and did her best to corrupt some youngsters and bring them to the fibre side. So, par for the course, really.

We discuss some more NASA nerdiness, some insane Thanksgiving goodies (CherPumPle, anyone?), a some movie news (Muppets! More Snow White!), a desk that we are dying to get and a geek dating reality show that we’re dreading, based on its creators’ pedigree. Oh yeah, and sparklepires. Someone needs to make the Charlie Swan Show right now!

As for what we’re crushing on this week, there’s some local sock monkeys looking for good homes and another major online publication with a new issue. WOOT!

In this bigger-than-usual episode, there’s the return of a poor, neglected project on Karen’s part and some slogging through a current project and important travel knitting decisions on Maggie’s. We squeal over a new trailer (BRAVE, OMG!), an idea for some holiday baking, some good news about geeks in higher education and some legislation that could affect a lot of people on the internet. There’s some discussion of our favourite things in one of this week’s new online knitting magazines, a handy list of excuses for buying yarn as well as some self-examination to see just how hooked on knitting we are.

This week there are finished objects and new projects as well as some tough decisions to make about what to knit next. We discuss a big nerd sporting event, some movie news and proof that the Internet can be used for good (and for boobs). Need some gift suggestions for the geek in your life? We have those too! And we also have this week’s temptations, of course, of the very small and the very geeky varieties.

This week, Maggie’s on some fun antibiotics, so she’s feeling a little loopy. Thankfully she’s finished one very large project and didn’t try working on the others that she has on the go. Karen, meanwhile, is still working on the same things as last week, though she does have some suggestions for those that are hexipuffing along. There’s lots of movie news and some flashbacks to our childhoods, as well as some things for the kids in all of us. There’s also a reminder that time is ticking away to gift-giving season, so we have a few suggestions on where to look for last-minute knits.

George Stroumboulopoulos (I admit, I did a cut n’ paste) interview of Kermit the Frog (link is to the clip on the CBC site, let us know if people in other countries can’t see it, and I’ll find an alternate). And apparently Strombo now does a show called George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight. The set looks just like the set of “The Hour”, okay?

We’re back with the old projects, new yarn, and a special guest that pipes up occasionally. Maggie has a very large finished project, Karen has the same project getting bigger. There’s news that Warner Brothers is throwing the invisibility cloak over the Harry Potter movies, a big list of Halloweeny movies and food and a tourist destination we’re both dying to go to. There’s also lots of vacation yarn, which is the best kind of yarn ever.

Oh, and our mic is crapping out on us again. Is it Christmas yet?

As usual you can email us at knit1geek2@gmail.com or join in the discussion on the Knit 1 Geek 2 Ravelry group as well as chatter with us on Twitter. And you can check out shirts and other swag at our Zazzle.com and Zazzle.ca stores! Our teensy cut of all purchases goes toward the new mic fund, as does anything people drop in the tip jar over on the right-hand side of the page, there.

This week there’s some old projects and some new ones, and one that’s been started yet again. We talk about comics and women, comics and movies, a very old cartoon tv show and a not-quite-as-old movie whose heart is going on in 3D next year. There’s some squealing about some cute things for your knitting and some cute guys that are concerned about your boobs for your phone. Oh, and bleating. Baaa!

As usual you can email us at knit1geek2@gmail.com or join in the discussion on the Knit 1 Geek 2 Ravelry group as well as chatter with us on Twitter. And you can check out shirts and other swag at our Zazzle.com and Zazzle.ca stores! Our teensy cut of all purchases goes toward the new mic fund, as does anything people drop in the tip jar over on the right-hand side of the page, there.

This week we finally get through the podcast on the fourth try (no, really), with the help of Admin Monkey who was our human mic-holder for the night. Once we actually get recording, there’s news about our projects including a finished object. Of course we can’t avoid the sad geek news of the week about Steve Jobs’ passing, but we try to bring in some lighter topics as well. And finally there’s both an account of some crushes turning into purchases, as well as a place where we can give back. Also, there are outtakes after the outro. Just be warned, the outtakes earn the explicit tag on their own!

Thanks to the Electric Sheep for saying such nice things about us on your podcast. We love you! Though really. Us? Ladies? Sure you’re talking about the same podcast here?

As usual you can email us at knit1geek2@gmail.com or join in the discussion on the Knit 1 Geek 2 Ravelry group as well as chatter with us on Twitter. And you can check out shirts and other swag at our Zazzle.com and Zazzle.ca stores! Our teensy cut of all purchases goes toward the new mic fund, as does anything people drop in the tip jar over on the right-hand side of the page, there.

This week there’s an epic saga of a certain stole and some alternate plans for knitting. There’s a newbie perspective on Pottermore (prepare yourself for the squealing now) and some speculation on a new gadget. There’s some news on a nerdy book coming out in a few months, some tips for sock knitting and some fall festivals, including Socktoberfest.

Happy Thanksgiving to our Canadian listeners! Here’s to more knitting time when not in a food coma. We’re defininitely thankful for all our great listeners.

Just a heads-up that you have to be logged in to comment on the blog, thanks to getting deluged with spam comments (seriously, there was a day where we were getting them every 20 minutes).

This week we’re back after a short break with some new projects and some old ones that are still hanging around. There’s some chatter and news about movies already released and coming out soon, some pondering how a network might not screw something up that they likely will, and a discovery of some seriously kickass uses for wool.

This week, it’s mostly about the Kitchener-Waterloo Knitters’ Fair. Who we met (hi Delores!), what we saw, what we were looking for, what we got, and a few little tips on how to go to these kinds of events and not be totally overwhelmed. But it’s not just all Fair, all the time–there’s a little geek news for tabletop gamers wanting to bring younger gamers into the fold, as well as responses to a couple requests we’ve had, capped off with a little news for anyone whose credit cards aren’t in danger of bursting into flame.

This week, there’s some discussion of a con we’re not at but wish we were, there are some finished objects, some progress on others (and a couple started *cough*) as well as a handy tip for knitting lace. There’s quite a bit of movie-related news involving some interesting casting and a classic’s re-release that has Karen squealing. There’s also some advance planning for our road trip this weekend (WOO!).

Oh and an update on something mentioned in the podcast: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies has *not* lost its third director. Bring on the witticisms and the decapitations!

On this week’s episode, the adventures in knitting have taken a toll due to end-of-the-summer craziness, but there’s some adventures in yarn buying and some grandiose plans to make up for it. This episode is also brimming with cute and LOLs (thanks to a couple inventive tumblr accounts and a band with a flashback to our childhoods) and some news about an upcoming movie that has us rather excited. Finally, in case you needed more projects on the go, there are a few patterns we’ve found/been hearing about that are pretty tempting.

We’re going to be on the road on Sept. 10th, hitting up the Kitchener-Waterloo Knitters’ Fair! And the something special mentioned in the podcast shipped today, so if you’re coming, be sure to find us and say hello!

In this episode, there’s an update on what we’re working on (and what we wish we were working on). There’s a couple geeky things that made us mad this week, and so we get our rant on, complete with cupcake trebuchets, glitter psychological warfare and a couple f-bombs (we use the explicit tag for a reason, and it’s not always because of boobs!). Finally we drool over some lovely yarn and fantasize about our dream knitting/crochet/spinning tools and accessories.

So what almost totally frivolous tool/accessory would you get if you had a couple hundred bucks to devote to such a cause? We want to know! Comment at the blog, email us at knit1geek2@gmail.com or tell us at the Ravelry group.

In this week’s episode, Karen is renaming her Viper Pilot Socks and waffling about yet another project, while Maggie has a finished object and is slogging away on the Quilt of Doom. There are some fannish disappointments (JACKSOOOOOOOON!! *shakes fist*) and some squealing (POTTERMORE!) along with in-depth discussion about the tension between networks and fans, as well as some SPOILERY discussion of Captain America (28:05-43:40) which includes use of the phrase “man titty”.

This week we have finished projects! (woot!) Or partly finished, at least. We talk movies with Cowboys & Aliens and Captain America (no spoilers), Karen’s crazy Sock Summit/SG-1 crossover ideas, some geeky gear and new Twist Collective. Oh, and some little thing no one’s probably heard about called Pottermore.

In this episode we give you an update on what we’re knitting and talk a little bit about yarn shopping in Toronto, discuss some of the things we’d liked to have seen at Sock Summit if we’d been able to go (sob) as well as some fannish anxieties and awesome costumes, as well as giving you still more geeky patterns to drool over and add to your Ravelry queue. You’re welcome.

Check out our new Ravelry group! Tell us about what you’re geeking out about, what you’re working on, and share any geeky stuff you find!

In this episode, we talk about our adventures in knitting (mostly the same as last week, with one finished object) as well as spinning and dyeing. There’s news from the first couple days of San Diego Comic-Con (not firsthand, sadly), some out of this world news (sorry, couldn’t resist) with what may be Neil Gaiman’s moon (*snerk*) as well as more geeky reading. Finally, we share another favourite indie dyer as well as a fanartist that had Karen melting into a puddle of goo. Not that that’s terribly hard.

In this episode, we share our Adventures in Knitting, including some frogging as well as finished objects. Karen explodes about the newest Harry Potter movie (see times below if you want to avoid spoilers!) and does get around to some other geeky news, and we share another of our favourite indie dyers.

Avoiding Deathly Hallows Part 2 spoilers? Chatter about the movie itself starts at 23:30 and ends at 40:00.

In this episode, we give you a little introduction to your hosts, tell you our Adventures in Knitting (hint: advance Christmas knitting and one shawl with a crazypants deadline), let out a loud Geek Squee about the two Harrys (Potter and Dresden, respectively) and let you know what yarns and patterns are our Cravings, Covets and Crushes for the week.